Postman
Staff Software Engineer - Fern
New York, New York, USA · Staff+ · full-time
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About the role
- Identify scaling bottlenecks before they become problems.
- Read about how we use Vercel and Next.js to achieve efficient multi-tenancy and faster development cycles.
- From in-depth code reviews to high-level architectural discussions, you'll help elevate the skills and impact of those around you.
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Fern, you'll build APIs, scale AI infrastructure, and design developer experiences that reach millions of people.
- Set technical direction: Drive system design decisions around data modeling, performance, correctness, and reliability.
- Build for durability and scale: Ensure our systems are performant, observable, secure, and resilient under real-world production load across infrastructure (e.g., Vercel, AWS, Turbopuffer).
- Collaborate across the stack: Partner closely with product designers, backend, and frontend engineers working in TypeScript and Next.js to define polished interfaces and slick user experiences.
- 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.
- Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners.
- About Fern, a Postman Company Fern helps software companies build a world-class API experience.
- About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer at Fern, you'll build APIs, scale AI infrastructure, and design developer experiences that reach millions of people.
- Drive system design decisions around data modeling, performance, correctness, and reliability.
- Build for durability and scale:
Requirements
- You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Compensation
- $250k-$310k
Benefits
- P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
- Our customers include industry leaders like Nvidia, Square, and Twilio, as well as fast-growing AI companies like ElevenLabs and OpenRouter.
- The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $250,000.00 to $310,000.00, plus a competitive equity package.
Company info
- The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded.
- What We're Looking For You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to solve technical problems with customers.
Equal opportunity
- Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers.
- Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes.
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