Postman

Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Engineering

Postman$180K — $220K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience, particularly with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
  • Proficient in implementing and monitoring third-party APIs, pixels, and trackers.
  • Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to navigate changing priorities while maintaining focus on compliance and performance.
  • Deep understanding of ad-blockers and their impact on integration work.
  • Investigation and debugging skills to analyze data streams and logs efficiently.
  • Familiarity with data privacy laws like GDPR in relation to third-party integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the implementation and monitoring of third-party integrations across web properties.
  • Optimizing the performance of various analytics and engagement tools.
  • Collaborate with leadership, legal, marketing engineering, and vendors to meet diverse needs.
  • Track the uptime and data integrity of integrations to ensure effective business insights.
  • Explore and work with a variety of technologies within the tech stack, adapting to daily changes.
  • Manage a backlog of interesting projects while upholding system integrity and compliance requirements.

Benefits

  • Full medical coverage including wellness reimbursement and flexible PTO.
  • Monthly lunch stipend to encourage team interaction.
  • Robust wellness programs focusing on physical and mental well-being.
  • Donation-matching program that supports personal causes.
  • Frequent team-building events promoting collaboration and connection.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the implementation, inventory, monitoring, and performance of every third-party integration that touches our numerous web properties: conversion pixels, trackers, first- and third-party analytics, ABM, APIs, cAPIs, cookie consent banners, and whatever the next law or vendor throws at us next quarter.

This is not a migration. It is not a zero-to-one build. It's a plane flying well, and the person you're backfilling left it in good standing with thorough notes. You'll be taking over the controls, tuning the instruments, and working through a backlog of challenging and interesting projects. If you're looking for a stepping stone to something else, this isn't it. If you want to deeply nerd out on analytics, engagement, performance, and the craft of getting third-party implementations right, read on.
What You'll Do

About 90% of your time will be spent on third-party integrations: implementing them, inventorying them, tracking them, monitoring their uptime and the veracity of their data streams, and optimizing their performance. These integrations are helping the business get a view into how our campaigns, organic traffic, and other initiatives are actually working.

The remaining 10% is where the variety lives. Our stack runs from AWS and Cloudflare Workers to React/Next.js, into a WordPress theme, a Zendesk theme, Discourse, and more. You'll jump in across JavaScript, TypeScript, a bit of PHP, JSON, YAML, and whatever implementation technique a given platform demands. What you ship on Monday may look nothing like what you ship on Friday.

You'll sit at the intersection of Leadership, Legal, Marketing Engineering, and our third-party vendors. All four will look to you to figure it out, and in a way that meets each of their needs. Knowing where to strike the balance between speed, compliance, quality, and performance shifts with every implementation.
About You

You thrive in ambiguity and dive in anyway. This corner of the ecosystem shifts constantly with each new law, vendor change, and business need, and that's exactly what you find interesting about it.

You can step onto an established, functioning system, get up to speed quickly, and start forming opinions about what you see, without needing to rewrite everything to feel ownership.

You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, make sound and informed judgment calls under competing priorities, and adapt quickly when direction shifts. This role has regular exposure to Leadership, so you bring a composed, transparent approach to your work and stay steady when the work gets fast or messy.

You also work well as a specialist inside a team of six engineers that can help where you may need it. There will be lots of solo adventures in your work, and also times when you can't get a project done without 5 other people involved.
About You
Must Haves
  • Based in or near San Francisco. This role is 5 days a week in-office at 1 Market St., non-negotiable.
  • Strong working experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js (or an equivalent frontend framework).
  • Hands-on experience implementing third-party APIs, pixels, beacons/trackers, and scripts. This is the core to the role, and should not be your first rodeo.
  • Experience monitoring third-party implementations and integrations for uptime and data integrity.
  • You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, make sound and informed judgment calls under competing priorities, and adapt quickly when direction shifts.
  • A solid understanding of what ad-/content-blockers, Pi-holes, browser opinions, and the like, do to this work.
  • Strong investigative and debugging skills, with the patience to dig through logs, network traces, and vendor docs until the issue is genuinely understood.
Nice to Haves
  • Experience with projects under GDPR and adjacent regulations, including cookie compliance and consent banners.
  • Building dashboards and reporting on top of your monitoring of third-party trackers.
  • Experience using AI tools for coding, testing, evaluation, and research, particularly inside a legacy codebase. We're heavily invested in AI workflows at every step.
  • A/B testing experience with LaunchDarkly or similar.
  • Familiarity with Sentry, Transcend, common martech pixels, LaunchDarkly, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Marketo, Qualified, and the like.

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $180,000 to $220,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

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.

About Postman

Postman is a software company that provides a platform for API development. The company's platform allows developers to design, test, and document APIs. Postman's software is used by over 11 million developers worldwide. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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2014

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