At Navan, “It’s all about the user. All of them.” We’re passionate about providing a seamless one-stop experience for business travelers, no matter how they travel, where they stay, or where they’re going. Our engineers work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build innovative tools and services that make hotel booking seamless, efficient, and enjoyable.
This is a very unique role that combines the small team feeling of a startup launching a brand new product, with the perks, opportunity size, and impact of an established company. Our team is building the next big thing, from scratch, but all within the hyper-growth context of Navan. You have a chance to heavily impact the roadmap of a nascent product and organization.
As a technical leader and contributor on the Edge team, you will partner closely with other engineers to drive change and improve frontend systems and developer experience. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors are expected to be hands on and contribute code.
What You’ll Do:
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular Frameworks
- Collaborate on application design with application development teams
- Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
- Able to work in full stack development as well. Knowledge of backend systems is a plus.
- Ability to own features end to end, from collaborating with product, designers, and shipping features and monitoring impacts.
- Perform design and code reviews of other engineers at Navan
- Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly
- Experience building developer frameworks that improve developer velocity, code quality and code health
- Expert at front end operational excellence - reliability, performance, instrumentation and measurability first
- Understand technical aspects of our frontend systems and identify areas for improvement
- Drive changes to frontend pipeline in efforts to improve developer experience and time to ship
- Work with team to define approach for application performance monitoring and improvement
- Mentor engineers on best practices and patterns
What We’re Looking for:
- 5+ years of UI development experience
- Track record of driving change in engineering organizations
- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
- Experience with SpringBoot
- Experience with React
- Knowledge with Jenkins
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of UI development experience
- Experience with Java
- Experience with JavaScript
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with Angular frameworks
- Experience with React
- Experience with SpringBoot
- Knowledge with Jenkins
- Track record of driving change in engineering organizations
- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
- Ability to work in full stack development; knowledge of backend systems
- Ability to own features end to end from design to monitoring
- Mentor engineers on best practices and patterns
What the Team is Saying
Navan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, along with mental health resources such as Headspace. Additional protections like disability and life insurance and options like FSA are described.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is specified as 16 weeks for the birthing parent and 10 weeks for the non‑birthing parent, with family medical leave also available. Supportive amenities such as an onsite Mother’s Room and company‑sponsored family events are included.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited vacation and generous PTO structures are highlighted, alongside paid holidays and sick time. Bereavement leave is also offered across many locations.
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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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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