Sr. Product Engineer

Navan is building the next generation of intelligent travel experiences where loyalty personalization and AI agents help travelers make better decisions before during and after every trip. As a Senior Software Engineer youll drive the technical vision architecture and execution for the highly available new specialty Travel platform that unlocks new verticals to existing Navan business.

What Youll Do:

• Architect Core Backend Systems: Design build and scale high-performance fault-tolerant microservices that process millions of travel and expense transactions globally.

Build Micro Front Ends: Design and Build clean and neat User interfaces for our users.

• Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive complex cross-functional engineering projects from conception to deployment making critical architectural trade-offs and setting technical standards for the wider backend organization.
• Optimize Performance & Reliability: Build robust APIs asynchronous event-driven architectures and scalable data pipelines with a relentless focus on low latency high availability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product management engineering leadership data and platform teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into cohesive enterprise-grade technical solutions.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Champion maintainable code thoughtful abstractions and rigorous testing. Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers leading architecture reviews and fostering a culture of strong operational ownership.

• 6 years of software engineering experience building and operating highly scalable distributed production systems at an enterprise or global scale.
• Deep technical expertise in backend engineering stacks such as but not limited to Java TypeScript/ Python or Go or any VM based language alongside a strong mastery of engineering fundamentals.
• Exposure to Front End technologies such as React or Angular.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing microservices complex APIs event-driven workflows and working with distributed systems and databases.
• Proven track record of driving technical vision and leading the architecture of large multi-team projects from inception through to successful production rollouts.
• Exceptional skills in systems observability and have SLO/SLIs thought through.
• Experience with production debugging and ensuring the reliability of critical Tier 1 services.
• Product mindset with the ability to balance immediate product delivery with long-term technical health and scalability.
• Experience with travel platforms fintech payment processing or complex financial ledgers is a bonus.