Head of Engineering (Customer Journey and Monetization)

Responsibilities

• People Leadership
• Hire, build and support multiple engineering teams. Be an effective manager of managers.
• Hire, retain and grow exceptional engineering talent
• Technical Leadership
• Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of hundreds of millions of developers
• Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business
• Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality
• Product Leadership
• Understand Postman's core customer journeys
• Influence and collaborate with product management to create frictionless, high-impact experiences leading to stickiness, high adoption and growth
• Decision Making and Goal Setting
• Help the teams prioritize work, create a balanced roadmap
• Define, measure and own key metrics for the performance of your team and set clear expectations and goals
• Collaboration
• Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact
• What You'll Need To Be Successful
• Master's degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Experience with commerce and payment platforms is a plus
• Experience leading and managing globally distributed teams
• 5+ years of experience coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
• 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
• Experience in recruiting, structuring and managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
• Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
• Sense of humor
• The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $300,000 to $350,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and ex

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Additional Information

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

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