Senior Backend Software Engineer

Join Navan, a company revolutionizing the travel experience through AI and personalization. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and architecture for our global travel and expense platform. You will design and build high-performance microservices, lead complex engineering projects, optimize performance and reliability, collaborate cross-functionally, and raise the engineering bar. Enjoy benefits such as parental leave, healthcare, flexible vacation, and a pet-friendly environment.

Missions

• Architect and build high-performance, fault-tolerant microservices that process millions of travel and expense transactions globally.
• Drive complex, cross-functional engineering projects from conception to deployment, making critical architectural trade-offs and setting technical standards.
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering leadership, data, and platform teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into cohesive, enterprise-grade technical solutions.

Profil recherché

- Product mindset with the ability to balance immediate product delivery with long-term technical health and scalability

- Experience with travel platforms, fintech, payment processing, or complex financial ledgers is a strong plus

- Exceptional skills in systems observability, production debugging, and ensuring the reliability of critical Tier 1 services

- Deep technical expertise in backend engineering stacks such as Java, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go, alongside a strong mastery of engineering fundamentals

- Extensive hands-on experience designing microservices, complex APIs, event-driven workflows (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies, and distributed databases

- Proven track record of driving technical vision and leading the architecture of large, multi-team projects from inception through to successful production rollouts