Staff Engineer, Desktop Platform

🕒 September 27, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

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Postman

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

API • SaaS • Enterprise

Postman is a collaborative API development platform widely used by developers around the world. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools to prototype, document, test, and demonstrate APIs, enhancing team collaboration throughout the API lifecycle. Postman allows developers to interact with APIs quickly and facilitates seamless team collaborations through features like workspaces and collections. It also offers integration with numerous tools and is trusted by a vast array of companies, including those in the Fortune 500. Postman aims to make API development faster and more reliable by reducing errors and speeding up the initial API call process. Additionally, it leverages AI to assist in writing test scripts and analyzing API responses. Postman is dedicated to improving developer productivity and API quality, making it an indispensable tool in the API management and development space.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture for Postman’s Electron-based desktop application • Design and implement core desktop features, including installers, auto-updates, and OS integrations • Improve performance across desktop platforms, from startup time to memory and CPU usage • Drive security best practices for Electron apps, including sandboxing and safe updates • Keep Postman current with Electron releases • Partner with Client SDK and Build/Release teams to align architecture and delivery • Collaborate across engineering to ensure a consistent, performant, and secure desktop experience • Shape technical direction across engineering by collaborating with other platform teams and aligning them on desktop needs • Mentor engineers and provide hands-on leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record as a Staff, Principal, or Lead engineer building cross-platform desktop applications • Deep expertise with Electron, Node.js, and modern web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) • Strong understanding of cross-platform packaging, auto-update systems, and OS-level integration (Windows, macOS, Linux) • Experience improving performance and security in large-scale desktop applications • Proficiency in C++ for writing native modules or integrations • Familiarity with Win32 APIs and macOS APIs for native integration and platform-specific optimizations • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence peers across teams • Hands-on leadership and ability to act as the technical anchor for a lean team • Systems thinker with pragmatic problem-solving and high standards

🏖️ Benefits

• pay-on-performance philosophy • flexible schedule • full medical coverage • flexible PTO • wellness reimbursement • monthly lunch stipend • wellness programs for physical and mental health • frequent and fascinating team-building events • donation-matching program • hybrid work model (employees in specified locations expected in-office 3 days/week)