Backend Software Engineer - Flights

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Palo Alto, CA
Hybrid
101K-175K Annually
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments • Productivity • Software • Travel • Automation
Travel & expense made easy.
The Role
Flights Backend Software Engineer

Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a 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-impact role 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
  • Design and develop robust, high-performance features and core services that support the company’s flagship product and serve a global customer base.
  • Apply technical expertise and creativity to address engineering challenges, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of features—from design and development to deployment and operational support—ensuring exceptional quality and value for users.
  • 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 by championing best practices in code quality, scalability, documentation, monitoring, and testing, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Learn and grow by staying 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
  • 3-5 years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments (open to exceptional candidates with less experience).
  • Ownership mentality with a record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale.
  • Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design
  • 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 plus.
  • Experience in Java and Spring Boot, Hibernate is a 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
$101,250$175,000 USD

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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
3,300 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Navan is the leading all-in-one business travel and expense management solution that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.

Why Work With Us

At Navan, we’re never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

In-person connections is the foundation of Navan, the connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and what we can achieve together. We operate on a hybrid working model, which we define as four days a week in-office.

Typical time on-site: 4 days a week
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