Staff Engineer, Flights Platform: Scale & Deliver

Navan; New City (NY); On-site; USD 129,600 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Flights group to build and scale the next-generation flight platform powering global business growth. You will be a hands-on leader, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and delivering high-impact features with a product-first mindset.

You’ll work with engineers, PMs, and designers worldwide to improve reliability, performance, and user experience while maintaining strong code quality and documentation practices.

Qualifications

• This role requires 10+ years building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced environments.
• A strong product mindset with customer empathy and focus on experience.
• Hands-on coder with leadership experience and production-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build at scale: provide technical leadership and craft high-performance architecture.
• Drive product-minded solutions with a deep understanding of customer needs.
• Solve ambiguous problems with creative, scalable engineering solutions.
• Own features end-to-end, monitor health, and ensure business impact.
• Collaborate across global cross-functional teams to deliver results.
• Elevate engineering culture with code quality, docs, and testing.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Distributed systems

Microservices

API design

Leadership

Code quality

Cloud architecture

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

JVM tooling

Job description

Navan is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Flights group to build and scale the next-generation flight platform powering global business growth. You will be a hands-on leader, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and delivering high-impact features with a product-first mindset.

You’ll work with engineers, PMs, and designers worldwide to improve reliability, performance, and user experience while maintaining strong code quality and documentation practices.