Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Navan has disrupted the corporate travel, payment, and expense market, always putting user needs at the center of our solutions. You now have the unique opportunity to join the Flights group in building the next generation flight platform. In your role, you will have a high degree of flexibility to shape a fast-growing product, working in a high-profile cross-functional team and launching new features at a fast pace.You will be responsible for leading, designing, and developing mission-critical product features and services driving our Flights platform.

What You'll Do: 

• Designing and implementing APIs and core services
• Developing models and business logic
• Building out impactful product features
• Ensure the quality of the features you built, follow-up on usage/issues post release.
• Work closely with product and design team to deliver new features that align with the needs of the business
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
• Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
• Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience working in a fast paced environment
• Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products
• In-depth experience with Java and Spring Framework
• Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals 
• Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
• Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
• Passion for solving problems and learning new tools and technologies
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Domain expertise in the travel industry
• Experience with AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus
• Contributions to open-source projects
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience