2 months ago
Base Salary
$92k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency APIs and backend services for flight search, booking, and payment workflows.
- Own features across architecture, data modeling, implementation, deployment, and production monitoring.
- Build fault-tolerant systems with automated testing, observability, alerting, and telemetry.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering leads to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared frameworks, engineering practices, developer productivity, and platform stability.
- Evaluate technologies, frameworks, and tools to modernize the backend stack and improve architecture.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of professional backend software development experience shipping production-grade applications.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and API design.
- Proficiency in Java and hands-on experience with Spring or Spring Boot and Hibernate or other ORMs.
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS using microservice architectures.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, caching strategies, relational databases, and distributed state.
- Ability to design maintainable solutions, write high-quality tested code, and contribute technical documentation.
- Clear communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners and explaining technical trade-offs.
- Experience with consumer-facing products, high-availability transactional platforms, or travel technology integrations is a plus.
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About Navan
Navan builds an AI-powered travel and expense management platform for businesses, combining online booking, spend controls, automated expense reporting, and corporate cards with 24/7 support. The company sells its T&E software and payments tools to enterprises and high-growth firms, generating revenue from subscriptions, travel transactions, and card interchange. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it rebranded from TripActions and serves customers globally.