Navan

Sr. Software Engineer, Backend

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Base Salary

$113k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale high-performance, fault-tolerant backend microservices for global travel and expense transactions.
  • Drive complex cross-functional engineering initiatives from conception through production deployment and establish technical standards.
  • Build APIs, asynchronous event-driven architectures, caching strategies, and scalable data pipelines focused on latency, availability, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with product management, engineering leadership, data, and platform teams to deliver enterprise-grade technical solutions.
  • Improve observability, production debugging, and reliability for critical Tier 1 services.
  • Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and promote maintainable code, rigorous testing, and operational ownership.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience building and operating highly scalable, distributed production systems at enterprise or global scale.
  • Deep backend engineering expertise in Java, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go.
  • Strong experience designing microservices, complex APIs, event-driven workflows, caching strategies, and distributed databases.
  • Proven ability to drive technical vision and lead architecture for large, multi-team projects through production rollout.
  • Exceptional systems observability, production debugging, and critical-service reliability skills.
  • Product mindset with the ability to balance immediate delivery with long-term technical health and scalability.
  • Experience with travel platforms, fintech, payment processing, or complex financial ledgers is a strong plus.
Navan

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.

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