Staff Back-End Engineer, Navan

Airline Transportation

$146.3-255k

AWS
Java
Hibernate
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Navan

Travel management company

Job no longer available

Navan

Travel management company

201-500 employees

B2CB2BTravelArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLending

Job no longer available

$146.3-255k

AWS
Java
Hibernate
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

B2CB2BTravelArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLending

Company mission

To reinvent the legacy category of travel and expense with one of the first enterprise technologies utilising the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business needs with today's modern standards.

Role

Who you are

  • 7-10 years or equivalent quality experience, preferably in startup environments
  • In-depth experience with Java and Spring Framework
  • Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals
  • Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems serving developers and/or end users
  • Ability to be a innovative problem solver that can turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions, and comfort with new technology and thinking outside the box to develop and implement solutions
  • Ability to influence without authority, working with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report into this role
  • Experience with airline and/or travel solving is a must
  • Ability to deliver features on your own
  • Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
  • Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus
  • Experience with AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus

What the job involves

  • The backend services this role will build serves customers across the globe. You will get to work with a highly motivated team pushing features at a fast clip
  • The role will support a highly reliable and resilient application. You will be part of continuously improving culture that values craftsmanship and developer productivity
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
  • Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
  • Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies
  • Problem solving and improving existing system

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Navan (formerly known as TripActions) is operating in a crowded marketplace, betting against rivals with similar offerings of user interface personalisation technology. Even so, the company's growth has skyrocketed and it has attracted significant investor interest. Competitors cannot match Navan's cutting-edge, AI-driven services, as well as 24-hour customer support.

Since its founding in 2015 the company has seen significant growth in transactions and in active users. Having expanded from its core travel expense management product, it now offers a corporate card and general expenses management, underwriting its customers' short term business expenses with its own Liquid financial offering. Navan has a list of impressive clients, including Glassdoor, Zoom, and Shopify.

Moving forwards, the company is focused on gaining more reach, especially in Europe. As part of the expanded go-to-market strategy, it rebranded to Navan with a more people-centric design approach. It also combined its travel, corporate card and expense services into a single app which is now available to individual users rather than only through a corporate account. This will be key in bridging the gap between business travel and consumer apps.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

45% female employees

-40% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Oct 2022

$154m

SERIES G

Oct 2021

$275m

SERIES F

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • Flexible Vacation
  • Healthcare
  • Commuter benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Health and Wellness
  • Fuel for Connection
  • Pet Friendly
  • 401k (retirement plan)
  • IATAN (travel-related discounts)
  • Connectivity Allowance
  • Learning & Development

Company values

  • Focus on Users
  • Tech-Forward Solutions
  • Lead with Context
  • Communicate with Candor
  • Raise the Bar
  • One Diverse Team

Company HQ

Ventura, Palo Alto, CA

Founders

Research and Development director in Mercury Interactive (and HP after acquisition of Mercury). Product Management director, then VP, at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ilan.

Studied Computer Science, managing positions in software engineering including VP and EVP of engineering at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ariel.

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