Senior Backend Engineer - Expense

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Palo Alto, CA
Hybrid
120K-215K Annually
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments • Productivity • Software • Travel • Automation
Travel & expense made easy.
The Role

As a Backend Engineer on our Expense Platform team, you’ll help build and evolve the core systems that power how modern companies manage expenses, creating intelligent, scalable infrastructure that empowers accounting teams, tax administrators, and company admins to make fast, accurate, and compliant decisions with confidence. You’ll work on a high-impact product area that blends deep domain complexity with user-facing simplicity. From designing robust APIs and real-time reconciliation pipelines, to integrating GenAI that flags anomalies, and surfaces actionable insights tailored to each persona — great for engineers who love building for both performance and innovation.

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:

  • Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals combined with 5+ years of experience building products 
  • 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
  • Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment 
  • Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products
  • Experience with Java, AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus
  • Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus
  • Experience with Spring Framework is a plus

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
$120,000$215,000 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.

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