Navan

Staff Software Engineer, Flights

Navan
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Base Salary

$130k - $288k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and scale robust, high-performance architecture and services for Navan’s global flight platform.
  • Act as a prolific individual contributor while providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
  • Own critical features end-to-end, from technical decisions and implementation through release monitoring and operational support.
  • Improve system reliability, performance, user experience, code quality, scalability, documentation, testing, and developer experience.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders across global teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
  • Champion a strong product mindset and engineering culture focused on customer value and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments.
  • Strong hands-on coding experience combined with technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Deep experience with Java, Spring Boot, AWS or another cloud provider, JVM performance and optimization, and cloud architecture.
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and API design.
  • Experience delivering production-quality maintainable code and supporting systems through monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous, technically demanding problems and collaborate with global cross-functional partners.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Travel-industry domain knowledge, including flights, bookings, or inventory management, is preferred.

Tech Stack

AWSJavaSpring Boot

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About Navan

1,001-5,000 employees

Navan is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.