Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Engineering
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Who Are We
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.
The Opportunity
Were hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the implementation inventory monitoring and performance of every third-party integration that touches our numerous web properties: conversion pixels trackers first- and third-party analytics ABM APIs cAPIs cookie consent banners and whatever the next law or vendor throws at us next quarter.
This is not a migration. It is not a zero-to-one build. Its a plane flying well and the person youre backfilling left it in good standing with thorough notes. Youll be taking over the controls tuning the instruments and working through a backlog of challenging and interesting projects. If youre looking for a stepping stone to something else this isnt it. If you want to deeply nerd out on analytics engagement performance and the craft of getting third-party implementations right read on.
What Youll Do
About 90% of your time will be spent on third-party integrations: implementing them inventorying them tracking them monitoring their uptime and the veracity of their data streams and optimizing their performance. These integrations are helping the business get a view into how our campaigns organic traffic and other initiatives are actually working.
The remaining 10% is where the variety lives. Our stack runs from AWS and Cloudflare Workers to React/ into a WordPress theme a Zendesk theme Discourse and more. Youll jump in across JavaScript TypeScript a bit of PHP JSON YAML and whatever implementation technique a given platform demands. What you ship on Monday may look nothing like what you ship on Friday.
Youll sit at the intersection of Leadership Legal Marketing Engineering and our third-party vendors. All four will look to you to figure it out and in a way that meets each of their needs. Knowing where to strike the balance between speed compliance quality and performance shifts with every implementation.
About You
You thrive in ambiguity and dive in anyway. This corner of the ecosystem shifts constantly with each new law vendor change and business need and thats exactly what you find interesting about it.
You can step onto an established functioning system get up to speed quickly and start forming opinions about what you see without needing to rewrite everything to feel ownership.
You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders make sound and informed judgment calls under competing priorities and adapt quickly when direction shifts. This role has regular exposure to Leadership so you bring a composed transparent approach to your work and stay steady when the work gets fast or messy.
You also work well as a specialist inside a team of six engineers that can help where you may need it. There will be lots of solo adventures in your work and also times when you cant get a project done without 5 other people involved.
About You
Must Haves
- Based in or near San Francisco. This role is 5 days a week in-office at 1 Market St. non-negotiable.
- Strong working experience with JavaScript TypeScript React and (or an equivalent frontend framework).
- Hands-on experience implementing third-party APIs pixels beacons/trackers and scripts. This is the core to the role and should not be your first rodeo.
- Experience monitoring third-party implementations and integrations for uptime and data integrity.
- You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders make sound and informed judgment calls under competing priorities and adapt quickly when direction shifts.
- A solid understanding of what ad-/content-blockers Pi-holes browser opinions and the like do to this work.
- Strong investigative and debugging skills with the patience to dig through logs network traces and vendor docs until the issue is genuinely understood.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with projects under GDPR and adjacent regulations including cookie compliance and consent banners.
- Building dashboards and reporting on top of your monitoring of third-party trackers.
- Experience using AI tools for coding testing evaluation and research particularly inside a legacy codebase. Were heavily invested in AI workflows at every step.
- A/B testing experience with LaunchDarkly or similar.
- Familiarity with Sentry Transcend common martech pixels LaunchDarkly AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers Marketo Qualified and the like.
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $180000 to $220000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidates skills qualifications and experience.
What Else
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.
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 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Accelerate API development with Postman's all-in-one platform. Streamline collaboration and simplify the API lifecycle for faster, better results. Learn more.