Senior Engineer (Backend), Product Trust - Bangalore

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

About the Team:

Product Trust is a team that ensures Postman is a safe and trusted platform for our customers. This team is responsible for building security features within the Postman ecosystem – from deciding what the product should look like to building and delivering it. Product Trust independently deliver solutions to address the security, compliance and governance needs of our customers. 

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to features the Product Trust team owns, including Postman Vault, Third-party vault integration, and Postman Secret Scanner.
• Deliver and own features and capabilities that allow our customers to operate Postman securely
• Lead technical initiatives to solve problems across teams and be responsible for the adoption and success of the initiatives by working closely with other teams.
• Perform design and code reviews and work towards the overall availability of the platform.
• Advocate for best practices that improve the productivity and quality of the team.
• Mentor early-career and experienced Engineers to bring out the best in them and help them learn and succeed at Postman.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing complex, distributed software applications.
• Proficient with Javascript, node.js, React.Js, and a strong understanding of web fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals, especially on the performance aspects such as optimizing queries, schema design, indexing, and caching.
• Proven record of building products from scratch.
• Has a point of view and prior experience collaborating and respectfully challenging other stakeholders, such as PM, EM etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You enjoy learning and sharing knowledge within and across teams.
• You have a product-oriented mindset and empathy for the users. 
• Experience and excitement towards working with global, distributed teams.
• Alignment with our Values.
• An innate curiosity about how things work.
• Lots of smiles

Our Values:

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

What Else?

We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you’re at.) Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements. Our frequent and fascinating virtual team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves, and we want you to be part of it. This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays,Wednesdays & Fridays.