Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Microservices Leader

Navan, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to drive the technical vision and architecture for Navan’s global travel and expense platform.

You will design high-performance microservices and scalable data pipelines, leading cross-functional initiatives across product, data, and platform teams. The role emphasizes execution, maintainable code, and a strong focus on low latency, high availability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in scalable distributed systems.
• Expertise in Java, TS/Node.js, Python or Go.
• Experience designing microservices, APIs and event-driven workflows.
• Strong observability, debugging and production reliability skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect core backend systems with scalable microservices.
• Lead cross-functional engineering initiatives from conception to deployment.
• Optimize performance and reliability of APIs and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, data and platform teams to translate requirements.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence.

Skills

Java

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Microservices

Performance optimization

Observability

Job description

Navan, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to drive the technical vision and architecture for Navan’s global travel and expense platform.

You will design high-performance microservices and scalable data pipelines, leading cross-functional initiatives across product, data, and platform teams. The role emphasizes execution, maintainable code, and a strong focus on low latency, high availability, and operational excellence.