Engineering Manager, Postman AI
Postman
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Pay‑on‑performance compensation philosophy
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience required
- At least one year of direct people‑management experience required
- Full medical coverage and flexible PTO
- Hands‑on coding expected despite senior leadership level
- Opportunity to shape AI‑native product development for enterprise teams
Role overview
Postman is looking for an engineering leader to own and shape the AI products Agent Mode and AI Engineer, which enable developers to interact with AI across the API workspace and automate long‑running development tasks. The role involves hands‑on technical leadership, cross‑functional partnership, and AI‑driven team management to deliver a best‑in‑class AI‑native product.
Responsibilities
- Own the engineering roadmap across Agent Mode and AI Engineer: alignment with product, unblocking engineers daily, sprint cadence, and quality as output velocity goes up
- Drive architectural decisions and code quality across backend systems, with enough hands‑on involvement to know when something is going sideways before it ships
- Partner with product, design, and GTM to figure out what AI‑native API development actually looks like for enterprise teams
- Work directly with customers and field teams to understand where the product falls short and feed that back into engineering priorities
- Mentor engineers and expand their scope to build a team that can operate at higher levels of autonomy over time
- Manage by doing: review PRs, make architectural calls, and ship alongside your team
- Use AI to run a better team – tracking work, surfacing risks, managing dependencies, and finding ways to get more out of a small team
- Grow engineers by putting real problems in front of them, recognizing readiness for more scope, and providing support as needed
- Care about how the system fits together – understand where the seams are in the Context Graph, Fabric Gateway, filesystem‑native collections, and tool surface
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with solid architectural depth; you've designed systems at scale and can read a design without getting lost in the implementation
- At least a year of managing a team with direct IC reports, and a track record of engineers getting better when working with you
- Hands‑on, as a default. You code regularly to ensure you’re best positioned to build an AI‑native product, and to stay comfortable in a space where the tooling changes every few months
Nice to have
- Exposure to agentic architectures, LLM tool use, and MCP
- Experience with observability platforms or developer tooling
Benefits
- Postman's pay‑on‑performance philosophy
- Flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team
- Full medical coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Wellness reimbursement
- Monthly lunch stipend
- Wellness programs supporting physical and mental health
- Frequent team‑building events
- Donation‑matching program
- In‑person collaboration model: office 5 days a week for hubs (San Francisco, Boston, Austin, New York, Tokyo, London) and 3‑5 days a week for Bangalore
Additional details
- Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by >45 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500
- Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore (where Postman was founded)
- Privately held, funded by Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners
- Company values include curiosity, transparency, goal‑focused work, and an inclusive culture
- Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer; does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters or agencies