About the company
Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) for our AI-first engineering team to drive the architecture of a next-generation corporate expense management platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust, high-performance features and core services that support the company's flagship product and serve a global customer base
- Apply deep technical expertise and creativity to address large-scale engineering challenges, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience
- Take end-to-end ownership of features—from design and development to deployment and operational support
- Work effectively as part of a global, cross-functional team, partnering with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders
- Champion best practices in code quality, scalability, documentation, monitoring, and testing
- Stay engaged with new technologies and industry trends
Requirements
- 4-6 years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with a solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization
- Proven experience leveraging AI models and AI-driven development to build intelligent, automated features
- Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale
- A record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting
- Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Conditions
- Fintech or payments processing experience is a plus
- Comfort with financial or workflow-heavy domains: expenses, payments, ERP, tax, or similarly high-stakes data