Senior Backend Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Serverless on AWS

Navan; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 118,800 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Developer to enhance their contact center systems. This role involves building production-grade services using Node.js on AWS Lambda, designing secure APIs, and implementing observability tools to ensure reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, is comfortable with cloud architectures, and has a solid foundation in AI-enabled development practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong API design, system architecture, and integration skills.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda or similar architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade Node.js services.
• Secure APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
• Implement observability pipelines using OpenSearch and CloudWatch.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Node.js or TypeScript

API design

AWS Lambda

Observability

AI coding assistants

GitHub workflows

Tools

Snowflake SQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Navan is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Developer to enhance their contact center systems. This role involves building production-grade services using Node.js on AWS Lambda, designing secure APIs, and implementing observability tools to ensure reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, is comfortable with cloud architectures, and has a solid foundation in AI-enabled development practices.