Staff AI Full-Stack Engineer - Tel Aviv Tech Lead

Navan; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan is seeking a hands-on Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Tel Aviv. You will design and build AI-powered products and workflow automation that help our teams deliver better customer experiences.

As the team’s technical lead, you will shape architecture, guide engineering decisions, and lead complex initiatives from discovery through production. You’ll remain deeply involved in implementation while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Design, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production SaaS experience.
• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with React or Angular and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Design and operate event-driven systems with reliable messaging.
• Demonstrated architectural leadership and trade-off decisions.
• Experience delivering LLM-powered capabilities to production.
• Strong ownership, testing, monitoring and documentation.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders and domain experts.

Responsibilities

• Own the team’s technical direction and guide implementation across frontend, backend, and integrations.
• Design, build and deliver product capabilities from user needs to deployment and improvement.
• Build reliable backend services and event-driven workflows with retries and idempotency.
• Develop AI-powered experiences with grounding and clear failure handling.
• Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, security, privacy and AI safety.
• Own production quality and reliability using customer feedback and data.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team’s engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, SRE, Security, Data Science and Legal.

Skills

SaaS development

Java & Spring Boot

React/Angular

Node.js

Distributed systems

LLM-powered features

Tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

NestJS

Job description

Navan is seeking a hands-on Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Tel Aviv. You will design and build AI-powered products and workflow automation that help our teams deliver better customer experiences.

As the team’s technical lead, you will shape architecture, guide engineering decisions, and lead complex initiatives from discovery through production. You’ll remain deeply involved in implementation while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Design, and