Software Engineer (Backend)

About the company: 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 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today. What You'll Do: Implement and maintain features, and enhance the performance and quality of Postman's products. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to specify, build, test, and deliver new features. Improve product quality and reliability by enhancing existing tests and writing new ones. Focus on the scalability of features and services owned by the Collections team. Work with the manager to define the roadmap and SLAs for the microservices you own. Perform code reviews and promote best practices in software engineering by mentoring and encouraging others to build high-quality products. Design and build internal tools to simplify the development and maintenance of the product. About You: You have at least 2 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at scale. You're proficient in high-level programming languages like Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Go. (We primarily code in Node.js and Python.) You have a strong understanding of web fundamentals. You possess in-depth knowledge of database fundamentals, especially in areas like query optimization, schema design, indexing, and caching. You have experience with cloud computing and distributed systems. You have strong computer science fundamentals in areas such as algorithms, networking, and operating systems, and are familiar with JavaScript tools, frameworks, and development practices. You're comfortable expressing opinions, collaborating effectively, and respectfully challenging stakeholders, such as PMs and EMs, when necessary. You write clean, testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand: You're curious about how things work and eager to learn new technologies. Nice to Have: Prior experience working with systems at scale, with familiarity in solving scalability and performance-related challenges.

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 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today.