Engineering Manager-Workspaces

What You’ll Do

• Understand the vision and the bigger picture of Postman and ensure the team fully understands and appreciates how their work fits into the larger scheme of things.
• Grow and develop teams, drive conversations with the engineers on topics such as career development, and align their growth with the long term vision and wider business needs.
• Own & drive the engineering/technical strategy for the team, deliver business critical initiatives in specified timeline and actively contribute towards product roadmap to drive the maximum impact for Postman by defining the team’s vision, mission, & strategy.
• Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring & on-boarding exceptional engineering talent.
• Define, measure & own key metrics for the performance of your and your team’s functional areas.
• Identify broader problems (Product features, End User Experience, Technology & Business), provide multi quarter roadmaps to the team, embrace constraints and prioritize effectively by working with stakeholders & leadership.
• Collaborate & Partner with peers in Product, Design & Engineering to craft the best building blocks, guidelines, & standards, & evolve the team’s vision, mission & strategy.
• Be well versed in S/W architecture and design. Be ready to be a part of design reviews (& code reviews) and ensure right decisions are made across the development lifecycle (Both front end and back end). Raise the bar for engineering standards, tooling and processes.
• You are responsible for the End User Experience, Performance, Security & High availability of the product and will work towards 99.99 availability.
• Be the custodian of operational & customer excellence when it comes to on-calls/incidents/performance/bugs/UX-issues.
• Provide measurable OKRs for the team and promote a culture of real time employee feedback.
• Regularly recognize and celebrate individual engineer’s achievements, both big and small, while emphasizing the importance of team success.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience
• Min. 7 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role building exceptional products that deliver a delightful experience for end customers.
• 2+ years of experience in people management.
• Experience building Micro services architectures.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Lots of smiles & empathy.

Nice to Have

• Experience in building customer based products at scale.
• Experience working on standardizing and solving common problems in engineering in a growing company