Software Engineer (backend), Integrations

Postman Postman · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Platform Engineering

Software Engineer (Backend) at Postman, focusing on building and maintaining integrations between Postman and other developer tools. Responsibilities include feature implementation, performance improvement, quality assurance, scalability, and designing internal tooling. Requires experience with distributed systems, backend languages (Node.js preferred), databases, and cloud computing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Implement and maintain features, improve performance and quality of Postman’s products.
  2. Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deliver new features.
  3. Improve quality and reliability by improving existing tests and writing new ones.
  4. Work on the scalability aspects of features and services that the team owns.
  5. Work with the manager for the roadmap and SLAs for the micro-services that you own.

Skills

Required

  • 3 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at scale
  • Experience with high level programming languages - e.g. Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go
  • Strong understanding of web fundamentals
  • Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals especially on the performance aspects such as optimising queries, schema design, indexing, caching
  • Experience with cloud computing and distributed systems
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals - Algorithms, Networking and Operating Systems
  • Familiarity with various JavaScript tools, frameworks, and development practices
  • Ability to write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand
  • Good written and verbal communication

Nice to have

  • Previous experience with systems with scale and familiarity with problems related to scalability and performance
  • A learning mindset and the willingness to do beyond what’s being told.
  • An innate curiosity about how things work under the hood.