# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Postman](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/postman)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $220k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, Python, React, Next.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, Full Stack Development, Backend Engineering, Api Platforms, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-07-03

> Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design, build, and ship full-stack applications, integrations, and tools centered on APIs. Requires 6+ years full-stack/backend experience, customer-facing skills, and proficiency in Node.js/Python, React/Next.js, and cloud platforms.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Work closely with strategic customers and internal teams to deeply understand high-value problems
- Design and build full-stack applications, integrations, and tools that solve real-world use cases 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 to frontend and backend development
- Act as a trusted technical advisor and partner to customers, helping them unlock the full power of Postman
- Collaborate with Postman’s product and engineering teams to influence roadmap based on field learnings
- Help define and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function from the ground up

## About You
- 6+ years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend engineer; startup or founding team experience is a big plus
- Customer-obsessed and energized by solving real problems with high business impact
- Experience with AI Agents, API Platforms is a plus
- Experience working directly with customers or in consultative roles (e.g., solutions engineering, CTO-as-a-service, technical consulting)
- Strong generalist with proficiency in Node.js, Python, or similar backend languages, and React/Next.js or similar for the frontend
- Experience building and shipping cloud-based applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Enjoy ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced, 0→1 environments
- Excited about building systems and practices that can scale with a rapidly growing company

Base salary ranges from $220,000 to $240,000, plus a competitive equity package.

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