Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

Postman
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Customer-obsessed","Rapid iteration","Problem-solving","Adaptability"]

Build 0-to-1, customer-embedded solutions that solve real-world problems using APIs. Design and implement full-stack applications, integrations, and tools, prototype rapidly, and iterate from user feedback. Own end-to-end technical execution across architecture, infrastructure, frontend, and backend, while acting as a trusted technical advisor. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence roadmap and help scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function from the ground up, with 20–30% travel.

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Postman
Postman
1 year ago

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

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Job Summary

Build 0-to-1, customer-embedded solutions that solve real-world problems using APIs. Design and implement full-stack applications, integrations, and tools, prototype rapidly, and iterate from user feedback. Own end-to-end technical execution across architecture, infrastructure, frontend, and backend, while acting as a trusted technical advisor. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence roadmap and help scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function from the ground up, with 20–30% travel.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work closely with strategic customers and internal teams to understand high-value problems.
  • •Design and build full-stack applications, integrations, and tools with APIs at the center.
  • •Rapidly prototype solutions, validate impact, and iterate quickly based on user feedback.
  • •Own end-to-end technical execution from architecture and infrastructure through frontend and backend development.
  • •Act as a trusted technical advisor and partner to customers, influencing product roadmaps with field learnings.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveWellness StipendMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend engineer; startup or founding team experience is a plus.
  • •Experience working directly with customers or in consultative roles (e.g., solutions engineering, CTO-as-a-service, technical consulting).
  • •Strong generalist proficiency in Node.js or Python (or similar backend languages) and React/Next.js (or similar frontend).
  • •Experience building and shipping cloud-based applications (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • •Customer-obsessed and energized by solving real problems with high business impact; able to thrive in fast-paced, 0→1 environments.
Experience:6+ yearsAPI platformsAI agents
Skills:Customer-obsessedRapid iterationProblem-solvingAdaptability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Node.jsPythonReactNext.jsAWSGCPAzure

Company Brief

Postman
Provides a collaborative API development platform enabling design, testing, documentation, and monitoring of APIs. Widely used by developers and teams to streamline API workflows across development and testing lifecycles.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2014
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