Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
TripActions · New York, NY
About this role
**Navan — Sr. Software Engineer, Backend** Navan is building the next generation of intelligent travel experiences, where loyalty, personalization, and AI agents help travelers make better decisions before, during, and after every trip. As a **Senior Software Engineer (Backend)**, you’ll drive the technical vision, architecture, and execution for highly available, distributed services that form the backbone of Navan’s global travel and expense platform. --- ## What You’ll Do - **Architect Core Backend Systems:** Design, build, and scale high-performance, fault-tolerant microservices that process millions of travel and expense transactions globally. - **Lead Technical Initiatives:** Drive complex, cross-functional engineering projects from conception to deployment—making critical architectural trade-offs and setting technical standards for the wider backend organization. - **Optimize Performance & Reliability:** Build robust APIs, asynchronous event-driven architectures, and scalable data pipelines with a relentless focus on low latency, high availability, and operational excellence. - **Collaborate Cross-Functionally:** Partner with product management, engineering leadership, data, and platform teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into cohesive, enterprise-grade technical solutions. - **Raise the Engineering Bar:** Champion maintainable code, thoughtful abstractions, and rigorous testing. Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and foster a culture of strong operational ownership. --- ## What We’re Looking For - **6+ years** of software engineering experience building and operating highly scalable, distributed production systems at an enterprise or global scale. - Deep technical expertise in backend stacks such as **Java, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go**, plus strong mastery of engineering fundamentals. - Hands-on experience designing microservices, complex APIs, event-driven workflows (e.g., **Kafka, RabbitMQ**), caching strategies, and distributed databases. - Proven track record driving technical vision and leading architecture for large, multi-team projects from inception through production rollouts. - Exceptional skills in systems observability, production debugging, and ensuring reliability of critical Tier 1 services. - Product mindset: balance immediate delivery with long-term technical health and scalability. - Experience with travel platforms, fintech, payment processing, or complex financial ledgers is a plus. --- ## Pay Range **$113,400 — $252,000 USD** --- *Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.* **Human oversight:** Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. **Your rights:** If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation here: https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f For more information, see the **Candidate Privacy Notice**: https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice
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