Senior Frontend Engineer, Client Platform

Posted 13 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Software • Database
The Role
The Senior Frontend Engineer will lead technical projects, improve web platforms, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating across teams to enhance web applications.
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Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 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 X via @getpostman.

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

What You'll Do

The Client Platform team is a global engineering organization responsible for creating a “paved path” for all Postmanauts to develop and release web-based applications. Our platform is the foundation that hundreds of engineers at Postman rely on daily to deliver new features and improvements to over 30 million customers. We manage everything from build tooling and shared libraries to development infrastructure, best practices and our cross-platform desktop application. 

Specifically you will:

  • Collaborate with leaders and engineers across Postman to assist in architecting solutions.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve our web platform.
  • You work with other senior engineers and leaders in Client Platform to set our roadmap and strategy and act as an internal tech evangelist to continuously improve web development at Postman.

About You

  • You communicate clearly and listen effectively. You seek new perspectives and build trust with your colleagues
  • You love the challenge of constraints and excel at finding creative solutions
  • You take ownership of problems, not solutions, and celebrate success as a team
  • 8+ years in Frontend software engineering
  • Deep understanding of modern web practices and the associated technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular etc.)
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience mentoring and helping develop other engineers
  • Bonus: You’ve been a part of performance initiatives and are familiar with the techniques and tools used to create fast and responsive web applications. 

This role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from  $180,000 to $240,000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

What Else?

In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. If you have little ones in your family, the creche allowance can help in supporting your work-life balance. Our frequent and fascinating 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. 

At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

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.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.

Top Skills

Angular
JavaScript
React
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,455 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Postman is the world’s leading API platform. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 20 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today.

Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

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