Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Enterprise Team, you will be a technical leader building the backbone of our corporate travel infrastructure. You will architect and develop the critical systems that allow the world’s largest companies to configure, manage, and scale their travel programs—covering everything from complex policy engines and approval workflows to user lifecycle management and enterprise analytics.
This is a high-impact engineering role where you will solve complex logic and scalability challenges. You will ensure that our platform can handle sophisticated corporate rules and seamless integrations for massive global organizations. You’ll collaborate closely with a talented team of engineers, product managers, and architects to design and build creative solutions that empower our customers to manage their travel spend effectively.
What You’ll Do
- Architect Enterprise Core Services: Design, build,
and evolve the backend microservices that power the "brain" of the corporate travel platform—specifically the engines responsible for travel policies, dynamic approval workflows, and compliance enforcement.
- Build Data-Driven Services: Design and develop highly scalable APIs and data processing services that manage high volumes of data, power reporting features, and enable seamless integrations with both internal and external systems.
- Own Systems End-to-End: Take technical ownership of a problem domain, architecting, developing, and launching key backend features and microservices that have a direct impact on our users and business operations.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work cross-functionally with various engineering, product, and business teams to deliver complex, cross-domain features in a collaborative, global environment.
- Drive the Technical Vision: Partner with engineering and product leadershi