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Navan is an all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management solution that eliminates the hassles of corporate travel & expense management while giving finance leaders real-time spend visibility and control.
The Frontend Architect plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of Navan's frontend infrastructure and developer experience across the organization. This role is central to architecting and maintaining the frontend platform that enables 20+ engineering teams to deploy independently while maintaining high quality standards. The Frontend Architect is essential to our mission, building shared libraries, developer tooling, and infrastructure, evolving the platform for both human and AI-assisted development, and driving performance and reliability initiatives.
What You'll Do- Architect Micro-Frontend Infrastructure: Design and evolve micro-frontend platform using Module Federation in React & Angular. Create and maintain shared NPM packages enforcing consistency and patterns across the organization. Drive team collaboration through architectural governance, review processes, and cross-functional alignment.
- Drive Developer Platform Strategy: Create developer tools and automation that streamline workflows and boost productivity across engineering teams. Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for frontend implementation, browser testing, debugging, framework migrations, and delivery—from a task specification to a validated pull request. Author technical documentation and mentor engineers through code reviews.
- Enable Reliable Coding Agent Workflows: Structure repositories, component libraries, documentation, and development environments so engineers and coding agents can reliably build, test, and extend the platform. Establish clear component contracts, runnable examples, predictable build and test commands, and reusable skills and integrations that provide relevant company context and actionable validation feedback.
- Establish Shared Patterns for AI-Powered Experiences: Partner with product and AI platform teams to establish shared UI patterns for AI-powered experiences, including streaming responses, progress visibility, cancellation, error recovery, and user approval of consequential actions. Design reusable components with clear contracts that reduce integration time across teams.
- Strengthen Testing and Validation: Establish fast, reliable feedback through component tests, browser automation, visual regression checks, and CI gates so changes can be validated consistently across teams. Define validation and human review requirements for AI-generated changes.
- Drive Adoption and Measurable Outcomes: Pilot new workflows with engineering teams, measure delivery time, escaped defects, reliability, and AI usage cost, and turn successful approaches into supported company standards. Verify that tools, integrations, and workflows operate successfully in the teams and environments where they are adopted.
- Partner on Secure AI-Assisted Development: Work with Security and the AI platform team to establish scoped tool access, safe handling of secrets and sensitive data, and clear accountability for agent-generated changes. Define appropriate human review and approval boundaries for frontend workflows.
- Drive Reliability & Performance: Lead optimization initiatives to reduce bundle size and costs. Spearhead framework migrations delivering critical security fixes. Implement performance monitoring and optimization strategies that reduce latency and improve load times.
- At least 8 years of experience in frontend software development
- At least 3 years of experience in frontend architecture with demonstrated organization-wide impact
- Deep expertise with React and TypeScript; experience with Angular is highly valued
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures (Module Federation, single-spa, Web Components, or similar approaches)
- Strong knowledge of build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) and monorepo management
- Experience with testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E) and establishing testing standards across teams, including component testing, browser automation, visual regression checks, and CI validation
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to deliver production changes, with the ability to evaluate generated code, design effective validation, and explain where human review is necessary
- Ability to demonstrate improvements in engineering delivery, quality, or reliability from AI-assisted workflows and drive adoption across teams
- Practical understanding of scoped tool access, secrets, sensitive data, and accountability for AI-generated changes, in partnership with Security and AI platform teams
- Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and drive consensus across multiple teams.
- Nice to have: Experience with observability platforms, CDN optimization, Next.js or other meta-frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS
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.
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.
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Skills Required
- At least 8 years of experience in frontend software development
- At least 3 years of experience in frontend architecture with demonstrated organization-wide impact
- Deep expertise with React and TypeScript
- Experience with Angular
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures such as Module Federation, single-spa, or Web Components
- Strong knowledge of build tooling such as Webpack, Vite, or Rollup and monorepo management
- Experience establishing unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies across teams
- Experience with component testing, browser automation, visual regression checks, and CI validation
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to deliver production changes
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated code and design effective validation and human review processes
- Demonstrated improvements in engineering delivery, quality, or reliability from AI-assisted workflows
- Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted workflows across teams
- Understanding of scoped tool access, secrets, sensitive data, and accountability for AI-generated changes
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with observability platforms
- Experience with CDN optimization
- Experience with Next.js or other meta-frameworks
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with AWS
What the Team is Saying
Navan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families are explicitly offered, and healthcare is often characterized as a strong part of the package with mental‑health resources included. This breadth of core health benefits is consistently highlighted alongside lifestyle supports.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies emphasize flexible/unlimited vacation in the U.S., with region‑specific structures such as five weeks of paid annual leave in the UK. This scope of time‑off options is presented as a clear advantage.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is structured at 16 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non‑birthing parents. This level of support is positioned as a meaningful benefit for families.
Navan Insights
What We Do
Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform 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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Hybrid Workspace
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.
