Senior Software Engineer Manager - Ecosystems

Senior Software Engineer Manager - Ecosystems 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. Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, collaboration, and developer success. As the Sr. Engineering Manager for Ecosystem, you’ll build and lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding the team to build scalable, reliable, high-performance features that power the future of our Ecosystem. You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap that will empower developers + partners to create rich, integrated experiences that will help teams create, collaborate, manage, and scale their APIs and solutions. This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences. You will define our technical strategy to achieve our ecosystem goals, including how extensibility, integration frameworks and public APIs work at Postman, how integrations look, feel, and behave to our end users, and how customers discover, install, and buy apps via a marketplace. If you’re passionate about building products that make an impact, have a proven track record of leading engineering teams to success, and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, we want you on our team! What You’ll Do Hire, manage, mentor, and coach several teams of engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally. Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team. Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the product and company vision. Design strategies for developer success across many areas, including those that are still in the early stages of finding their product-market fit. Experiment, design, and influence rigorously the creation of new kinds of experiences for consumers and the new business models that will support builders, creators, partners, and developers. Technical Leadership Facilitate and coordinate the technical design and execution of complex features for Postman’s ecosystem platform ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of customers and partners everywhere. Partner with leaders at strategic companies in the ecosystem to define high value product offerings through Postman app as well as the partner app and marketplaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineering managers, to deliver high-quality, customer-focused features. Ensure engineering best practices are upheld, including code reviews, testing, and continuous delivery. Project Management Own the engineering roadmap for Ecosystem, including Developer Tooling, Strategic Integrations and Marketplace, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical and business investments. Break down complex initiatives into clear, actionable milestones and manage the delivery of these projects on time. Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks, ensuring your team meets its deadlines and delivers features with high quality. Work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables. Foster open communication within the team, promoting collaboration and transparency. Represent the engineering team in meetings with leadership, advocating for technical needs and constraints while aligning with broader company goals. Operational Excellence Ensure the reliability and performance of Ecosystem products by driving operational best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response. Optimize the team’s workflow by implementing automation and improving processes where needed. Maintain a high level of code quality and system robustness by promoting test-driven development and continuous integration. About You You are a seasoned engineering leader with a passion for building great products, fostering strong teams, and solving challenging technical problems. You have a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and driving technical projects from concept to delivery geared towards helping 3rd party developers build impactful apps quickly and successfully (ex. Shopify, Atlassian, HubSpot, Slack, etc.). Must Have Qualifications 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 5+ years in an engineering management or leadership role. Experience building and launching 0 → 1 ecosystem features, platform extensibility (UI components, frameworks, APIs), developer tooling and/or products for external technical audiences. Proven experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments. Strong background in backend or frontend development (experience with React, Java a plus). Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and succeed. Experience managing the full software development lifecycle, from design through production support. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Nice-to-Have Familiarity with API development, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and container orchestration (Kubernetes). Prior experience working in a SaaS or cloud-based environment. A passion for building systems that prioritize scalability, performance, and operational excellence. The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $260,000 to $300,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. 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. Work Environment 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, 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 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. 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