Senior Software Engineer, Flights at Navan

<p>Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a Senior software Engineer in the Flights group, you’ll play an essential part in building and scaling the next-generation flight platform, Navan’s flagship product that drives global business growth. This is a high-scale, complex environment where your work will impact customers worldwide. You’ll solve challenging problems, collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers across the globe, and contribute to a platform trusted by major enterprises.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build at Scale: Design and develop robust, high-performance features and core services that support the company’s flagship product and serve a global customer base.</li> <li>Solve Complex Problems: Apply deep technical expertise and creativity to address large-scale engineering challenges, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience.</li> <li>Deliver Customer-Facing Solutions: Take end-to-end ownership of features—from design and development to deployment and operational support—ensuring exceptional quality and value for users.</li> <li>Collaborate Across Teams: Work effectively as part of a global, cross-functional team, partnering with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders to deliver impactful solutions and elevate team performance.</li> <li>Contribute to Engineering Culture: Champion best practices in code quality, scalability, documentation, monitoring, and testing, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.</li> <li>Learn and Grow: Stay engaged with new technologies and industry trends, bringing a growth mindset and a passion for delivering elegant solutions to complex problems.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments (open to exceptional candidates with less experience)</li> <li>Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale</li> <li>Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization</li> <li>Strong experience with distributed systems, micro-services, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms</li> <li>Ownership mentality with a record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting</li> <li>Collaborative team player able to work effectively with global, cross-functional partners</li> <li>Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality</li> <li>Problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling technically demanding and customer-impacting challenges</li> <li>Domain knowledge in the travel industry (flights, bookings, or inventory management) is a strong plus</li> <li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description">The posted pay range represents the&nbsp;anticipated&nbsp;low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.<br><br>For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.</div><div class="title">Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$113,400</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$252,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Human oversight:</strong>&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Your rights: </strong>If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email <a href="https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f">here</a>. Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> <p>Please refer to our<a href="https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice"> Candidate Privacy Notice</a> for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.</p></div>