About the company
Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer in the Flights group, you'll play an essential part in building and scaling the next-generation flight platform, Navan's flagship product that drives global business growth.
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
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization
- Strong experience with distributed systems, micro-services, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Ownership mentality with a record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code
- Collaborative team player able to work effectively with global, cross-functional partners
- Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality
- Domain knowledge in the travel industry (flights, bookings, or inventory management) is a strong plus
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
Conditions
- Pay range: $113,400 — $252,000 USD
- Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.