Software Engineer, Integrations

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 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 an office in Bangalore, where it 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.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

The Opportunity

We are investing in an Engineering team at Postman to help cross-functional teams—such as Marketing, Product, Growth, Data—collect and analyze behavioral data in a meaningful and thoughtful way. This work will focus on implementation and maintenance of first- and third-party integrations for numerous platforms, properties, and intersecting with a wide array of teams at Postman. We are growing this team for a number of reasons, notably:

1. Help cross-functional teams meet their goals by implementing new behavioral analytics and contextual tagging of pages and UI
2. Help make the experience better for our visitors by implementing A/B testing, dynamic content, and AI-sourced interlinking
3. Utilize new data collection methods using conversion APIs, integrations with CDP and data warehouses
4. and more!

In effect: we have dozens of properties and web apps and even more first- and third-party integrations. The list is growing, and challenges in keeping up with browser opinions, governmental requirements, performance—and new ways to connect it all—have us looking for an experienced engineer that has worked with integrations, and can focus on it deeply. You would be joining a stable and established team of distributed engineers that has been together for over 5 years.

What You’ll Do

To achieve our goals, we’ll need an experienced and thoughtful engineer with a special interest and aptitude for software focused on integrations. We are looking for someone who cares deeply about the details and spends time building that interconnective tissue between the front-end and various consuming services. We need an engineer who can be somewhat self-directed and who is proactive, creative, and can collaborate with engineers and non-engineers alike. Your day-to-day work will be smack in the middle of Legal, Marketing, Product and Data teams, and deeply inform the telemetry of numerous campaigns.

Creativity and tenacity are key on this team, and with this work. We are looking for someone who is comfortable in the unknown—and there are a lot of unknowns!—and figure out ways to get old and new technologies to work together. You will be leveraging your experience, as well as leveling up in new technologies, platforms and systems.

More specifically, this role would be:

• Implementing, maintaining, sunsetting, and keeping an inventory of third-party scripts, pixels and trackers.
• Maintaining our first-party, universal JavaScript analytics SDKs.
• Tracking and improving performance impacts of above.
• Implementing third-party Conversion APIs.
• Implementing integrations with our third-party tools, databases and various microservices via various API protocols.
• Working on multiple projects in phases, and iterating toward full-functionality.
• For someone with a real drive and excitement for development in the world of UI instrumentation, analytics, integrations, compliance, and the ever-shifting landscape of browsers’ opinions.

About you

Must have:

• A solid and deep understanding of universal JavaScript. You have been working in JavaScript for years, across Node, web apps, plugins and more.
• Experience in developing, maintaining, and deploying serverless web apps.
• A solid and deep understanding of APIs. You have consumed, designed, built and maintained various protocols.
• Experience in ReactJS.
• Experience in implementing third-party pixels and trackers.
• A strong skillset in collaborating and communicating on complex integrations with cross-functional teams that are often not engineers.
• A solid understanding of HTML, and reusable components.

Nice-to-haves would be experience in:

• NextJS, GatsbyJS, PHP (for WordPress blog)
• AWS (Gateways, Lambdas, S3, Cloudfront)
• GitHub Actions
• Conversion APIs, and working with channels such a