Senior Engineer (Backend), Product Trust [Technical Lead Role]

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 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 offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman 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.

About The Product Trust Team The Product Trust team at Postman is responsible for building and maintaining highly secure, scalable, and reliable platform services that safeguard our users and their data. These services form the foundation of customer trust—from authentication and access controls to secret scanning, auditing, and compliance.

We work across the stack and across teams, partnering closely with infrastructure, product, and security to deliver solutions that protect our global user base.

The Role We are looking for an exceptional Senior Engineer who will lead the development of next-generation systems within the Product Trust domain. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in building critical platform components, enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, and has a deep appreciation for both security and user experience.

You will play a key role in shaping the technical roadmap, owning delivery end-to-end, and mentoring other engineers as we build resilient systems at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain tier 0 systems that are secure, scalable, and highly available.
• Take ownership of backend infrastructure that powers core trust and security features at Postman.
• Work with your manager and senior team members to evolve the technical roadmap for the Product Trust team and guide architectural decisions.
• Contribute to product design by bringing in a security and trust lens to every feature we ship.
• Lead engineering best practices in code quality, observability, incident response, and system reliability.
• Mentor engineers within the team and support hiring, onboarding, and planning efforts.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack engineering roles, ideally in platform or security-focused domains.
• Expertise with Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and web frameworks (e.g., React) along with solid web fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases (SQL/NoSQL), web services, and backend architecture.
• Passion for building products that are secure by design and delightfully simple for users.
• Demonstrated experience driving projects from ideation to production.
• Strong system design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across team boundaries.
• Experience with mentoring engineers or leading small teams is a strong plus.

Why Join Us?

• Help shape the future of trust and security for millions of developers globally.
• Lead initiatives that directly impact product integrity, reliability, and compliance.
• Collaborate with world-class engineers in a high-growth, product-driven environment.
• Join a company that values curiosity, transparency, ownership, and winning together.

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. 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, Austin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad, London, 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.