Senior Engineer, Messaging Platform

Postman is the worlds leading API platform used by more than 45 million developers and 500000 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 collaborationenabling 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 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.

Were looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us reinvent Postmans Notifications Platform for the next generation of AI-powered agent-driven experiences.

As Postman evolves to support agents and autonomous workflows notifications become much more than simple alerts. They need to be contextual intelligent reliable and deeply integrated into how users interact with the platform. Youll play a key role in building the foundation that makes that possible.

This isnt a role focused on maintaining an existing system. Its an opportunity to rethink and rebuild a critical platform from the ground up that will power notification experiences across Postman for years to come.

Youll have significant influence over the platforms architecture reliability and developer experience working closely with teams across the company to build something scalable intuitive and easy to adopt.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Messaging team youll help design and build the next generation of our Notifications Platform.

Some of the things youll work on include:

• Reimagining the platform to support agentic event-driven notification workflows.
• Designing backend systems that enable contextual notifications triggered by agents workflows and product events.
• Building reliable platform primitives for triggering routing delivery retries deduplication rate limiting user preferences and notification lifecycle management.
• Partnering closely with teams building Agents and AI-powered experiences to understand their needs and translate them into scalable platform capabilities.
• Improving the developer experience through well-designed APIs self-serve tooling documentation and integration workflows.
• Expanding observability across the entire notification lifecycleunderstanding what triggered a notification why it was sent how it was delivered and whether it succeeded.
• Ensuring the platform is designed with reliability and user trust at its core minimising issues such as duplicate sends stale notifications noisy experiences and incorrect targeting.
• Collaborating across infrastructure product design support and platform teams to deliver a seamless notification experience for both users and internal developers.
• Contributing to technical strategy architecture reviews engineering standards and design discussions within the Messaging team.
• Mentoring engineers and helping raise the technical bar across the organisation.

Youre someone who enjoys building platforms that other engineers love to use and can confidently navigate complex distributed systems.

Were excited to talk if you have:

• 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems platform services or large-scale backend applications.
• Strong proficiency in one or more common backend languages such as JavaScript Python Java Go PHP or C.
• Experience designing APIs frameworks or platform abstractions that are used by multiple engineering teams.
• A strong understanding of reliability observability operational excellence and system failure modes.
• Experience working with event-driven architectures messaging systems queues workflow engines or orchestration platforms.
• The ability to translate product requirements into durable scalable platform capabilities.
• A collaborative mindset and experience driving alignment across teams with different priorities.
• A preference for simple reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
• Strong communication skills and a sense of ownership that helps move ambiguous projects from idea to production.
• Curiosity about AI and agentic product experiences and how infrastructure needs to evolve to support them.
• And ideally a good sense of humour we appreciate people who enjoy what they do.

In addition to Postmans 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. Were building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.

At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area Boston Austin New York City Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce leadership team and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge brainstorming sessions communication and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

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 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.

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