Staff Software Engineer

Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a Staff Engineer in the Flights group, you will play a crucial role in architecting and delivering the next-generation flight platform, which serves as the company's flagship product and drives the majority of our global business. Operating at high scale, you will tackle highly complex problems and collaborate closely with a broad array of stakeholders, including fellow engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders worldwide. As part of a global, cross-functional team, you'll contribute to a core product used by enterprises around the globe, ensuring our solutions have far-reaching impact and maintain Navan's leadership in the market.

What You'll Do

• Drive Large-Scale Architecture & Technical Vision: Lead the design and evolution of scalable, high-performance architectures and core services at the heart of our flagship, global platform. Set the technical direction and orchestrate cross-team initiatives to address highly complex and mission-critical challenges that shape the company's most impactful product.
• Deliver High-Impact Solutions: Own the delivery of key product features and foundational services that power the core business. Work closely with a diverse group of stakeholders to ensure new capabilities deliver meaningful outcomes for the global customer base.
• Lead Through Influence & Mentorship: Act as a technical leader and mentor, inspiring excellence in engineering teams through best practices in system design, code quality, performance, reliability, and scalable architecture. Foster adoption of new technologies and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Champion product and system quality, including hands-on involvement in feature monitoring, performance analysis, and rapid issue resolution post-launch. Proactively plan for scalability and optimize for long-term reliability and maintainability.
• Collaborate Across Boundaries: Drive technical alignment and deep collaboration across multiple teams and domains, navigating business and technical complexity to deliver cohesive solutions for a flagship global product.

What We're Looking For

• 9+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments (open to exceptional candidates with less experience)
• Proven technical leadership on flagship or large-scale consumer-facing products
• Expert-level proficiency with Java and Spring Boot, including JVM optimization and performance tuning
• Deep experience in system and API architecture for distributed, microservices-based systems, including hands-on work with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Demonstrated ownership through delivery of production-quality code with robust testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Effective collaboration with global, cross-functional stakeholders
• Track record of evaluating and adopting emerging technologies
• Domain knowledge in the travel industry (flights, bookings, inventory management) is a strong plus
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Navan About Us
Navan is the all-in-one super app that makes travel and expense easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to focus on the things that matter most to them — all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control.

Navan's investors include visionaries like Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, Zeev Ventures, and entrepreneurs Lee Fixel, Adam Bain, and Elad Gil. Valued at $9.2B, Navan is well-positioned for continued growth as it continues its takeover of the travel and expense market.

In April 2023, Navan expanded in the Indian market with the acquisition of Tripeur, a modern, people-centric corporate travel and expense management company. The group's fifth acquisition in under two years, Tripeur joined the Navan Group alongside Spanish meetings and events specialists, Atlanta Events & Corporate Travel Consultants; Berlin-based modern travel management company, Comtravo; leading Scandinavian travel agency Resia AB; and London-based high-touch TMC, Reed & Mackay — the latter of which remains a standalone brand.

At Navan, we're never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation. All voices are valued here and you'll have the resources, tools, and training you'll need to do the best work of your life.

Our Benefits
Navan provides a comprehensive benefits package tailored to support your well-being and financial security. Our offerings include generous medical plans, dental, and vision benefits with premiums covered by Navan, as well as various insurance options designed to cover each family's needs. We also prioritize your holistic wellness with perks like paid parental and bereavement leave, subsidized commuter benefits, mental health support, connectivity stipends, and even pet insurance.

Workplace Policy
Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that is sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. Perks such as lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. We prioritize in-person connections and operate on a four-day-in-office work model. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

Equal Opportunity
Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.

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