Senior Software Engineer - Search

Search Team at Postman is responsible for enabling users to quickly find and get started with the APIs that they are looking for. Postman is growing at a rapid pace, and this manifests as an ever-increasing volume of data that users create and consume within their teams and in the Public API Network. We focus on improving discovery and ease of consumption of this data.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with 6+ years of experience, deep backend expertise in search and ETL systems and a strong product mindset, to lead core initiatives on our search platform. In this role, you'll work at the intersection of infrastructure, relevance, and developer experiencedesigning systems that power search across the platform. You'll bring a bias for action, a strong backend foundation, and the curiosity to explore beyond traditional boundaries, including areas like high-performance web services, high-volume data pipelines, machine learning, and relevance tuning.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end architecture and roadmap of the search platform consisting of distributed indexing pipelines, storage infrastructure, and high-performance web servers.
• Contribute to improving relevance of search results through signal engineering and better data models.
• Keep the system performant and reliable to handle growing data volume and query traffic, while unblocking business requirements and managing risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders like Product Managers, Designers, as well as other teams to drive initiatives.
• Uphold operational excellence in the team, showing a bias for action and user empathy.
• Quickly build functional prototypes to solve internal and external use cases.
• Scale the technical abilities of engineers in the team and uphold quality through code reviews and mentorship.

Requirements:

• You have 6+ years of experience building applications in high-level programming languages - JavaScript, Python, Java, etc. We code primarily in Python and JavaScript.
• You have worked on customer-facing search solutions and have hands-on experience with search systems like ElasticSearch/Apache Solr/OpenSearch.
• Experience building systems to orchestrate batch and streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Lambdas.
• Knowledge of compute engine/data processing engines like Apache Spark/ Apache Flink/ Ray.
• You have displayed strength in AI, Natural Language Processing, Ranking Systems or Recommendation Systems.
• You possess strong Computer Science fundamentals- algorithms, networking, and operating systems- and are familiar with various programming tools, frameworks, and development practices.
• You write testable, maintainable code with SOLID principles that's easy to understand.
• You are an excellent communicator who can articulate technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers.