# Senior Backend Software Engineer, Flights **Company:** [Navan](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/navan) **Location:** New York, NY **Work mode:** On-site **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 113K–252K/yr **Category:** Software **Department:** Other **Listed:** 2026-05-12 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/senior-software-engineer-7874424) ## Job description Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a Senior Backend 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. **What You’ll Do:** - 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. - Solve Complex Problems: Apply deep technical expertise and creativity to address large-scale engineering challenges, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. **What We're Looking For:** - 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) - Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale - Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization - Strong experience with distributed systems, micro-services, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms - Ownership mentality with a record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting - Collaborative team player able to work effectively with global, cross-functional partners - Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality - Problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling technically demanding and customer-impacting challenges - Domain knowledge in the travel industry (flights, bookings, or inventory management) is a strong plus - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience The posted pay range represents the anticipated 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. 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. Pay Range $113,400—$252,000 USD 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.  **Human oversight:** 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.  - **Your rights:** If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.  Please refer to our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights. ## Other open roles at Navan - [Director of Consulting Ecosystem](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/director-of-consulting-ecosystem-8346765) — Boston, MA - [Senior Software Engineer (Backend)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/senior-software-engineer-backend-8336683) — London, UK - [Senior iOS Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/senior-ios-software-engineer-8336693) — Berlin, Germany - [Senior iOS Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/senior-ios-software-engineer-8336696) — London, UK - [Junior Backend Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/navan/junior-backend-software-engineer-8336673) — London, UK --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*