Sr. Product Engineer

Overview

In this role you will shape the core backend and platform strategy for Navan’s next-generation AI-assisted travel experience. You will own scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and collaborate across product, data and platform teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions. You’ll drive architectural trade-offs, performance, and reliability while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for quality. This is an opportunity to influence a high-velocity travel platform at scale, with a focus on user-centric, AI-enabled experiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect core backend systems and scalable microservices for high-traffic travel and expense data
• Build and maintain micro front ends and user interfaces
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives from concept to production
• Optimize APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines for low latency and high availability
• Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to translate requirements into enterprise-grade solutions
• Mentor engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and promote strong operational ownership

Key requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in highly scalable, distributed production systems
• Proficiency in backend stacks such as Java, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go (or VM-based language)
• Exposure to frontend tech like React or Angular
• Experience designing microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and distributed systems
• Track record of driving technical vision and multi-team architecture leadership
• Strong observability skills with SLOs/SLIs, production debugging, and reliability of Tier 1 services
• Product mindset balancing delivery with long-term technical health
• Bonus: experience in travel platforms, fintech, payments, or complex financial ledgers

• cross-functional collaboration
• mentoring and leadership
• strong communication
• Java
• TypeScript/Node.js
• Python

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