Engineering Manager, Postman AI

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.

The Opportunity 

Agent Mode and AI Engineer are two of our most exciting AI products. Agent Mode is the foreground product where developers interact with an AI that understands their entire API workspace. AI Engineer handles long-running development and analysis tasks autonomously across an organization's API surface area. You'd be working with the team building and integrating these into Postman’s product surface area

What we actually need from you

You manage by doing. You're not running standups and writing status updates while engineers do the actual work. You're in the code, reviewing PRs, making architectural calls, and shipping alongside your team. You have opinions about what good engineering looks like when a significant chunk of code is AI-generated, and you hold the team to that bar through reviews and design discussions, catching problems early.

You use AI to run a better team. Not just as a product you're building, but as a tool you're using. Tracking work, surfacing risks, managing dependencies. The expectation is that you find ways to get more out of a small team than the headcount suggests, and AI tooling is a big part of how you do that. This is a necessary constraint for us to build a best-in-class AI-native product.

You grow engineers by putting real problems in front of them. You know when someone is ready to take on more scope and when they need support first, and you act on that read rather than waiting for a performance cycle to surface it.

You care about how the system fits together. Agent Mode and AI Engineer sit on top of the Context Graph, Fabric Gateway, filesystem-native collections, and a growing tool surface. You need to understand where the seams are and what breaks when something changes upstream.

What the work looks like

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.

The basics

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.

Why this matters

The foundation has shipped. Git, filesystem, Fabric Gateway, and Context Graph are all in production. The work is shifting toward quality, coverage, and enterprise depth across both products. If you've been managing engineering teams and you've been thinking about what software development looks like when agents are doing a meaningful share of the work (and you want to build that, not just talk about it), this is the role.

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. 

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, New York City, 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.

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. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.