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Senior Software Engineer (Backend) Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/strong><\/td>\nNavan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Job Role<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Software Engineer (Backend)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Qualifications<\/strong><\/td>\nNot specified<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Category<\/strong><\/td>\nI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Job Type<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location<\/strong><\/td>\nLondon, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Requirements<\/h2>\n

What we're looking for<\/h3>\n
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  • 4-6 years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments (open to exceptional candidates with less experience).<\/li>\n
  • Java & Spring Mastery: Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with a solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization.<\/li>\n
  • AI Integration: Proven experience leveraging AI models and AI-driven development to build intelligent, automated features and enhance engineering productivity.<\/li>\n
  • Systems Architecture: Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms.<\/li>\n
  • Product Experience: Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale.<\/li>\n
  • Ownership Mentality: A record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting.<\/li>\n
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborative team player able to work effectively with global, cross-functional partners.<\/li>\n
  • Technical Excellence: Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality, coupled with a passion for tackling technically demanding and customer-impacting challenges.<\/li>\n
  • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Nice to have<\/h3>\n
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    • Fintech or payments processing experience is a plus.<\/li>\n
    • Comfort with financial or workflow-heavy domains: expenses, payments, ERP, tax, or similarly high-stakes data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. <\/p>\n

      Human oversight:<\/strong> Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application. <\/p>\n

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        Your rights: <\/strong>If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email here . Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.<\/p>\n

        The role<\/h2>\n

        Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) for our AI-first engineering team to drive the architecture of a next-generation corporate expense management platform. In this role, you will scale backend systems powering global commerce, payments, issuing platforms, and payment\/money ledgers, while building infrastructure for automated policy management, granular admin controls, and seamless accounting system integrations.<\/p>\n

        What you'll do<\/h3>\n
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        • Build at Scale: Design and develop robust, high-performance features and core services that support the company’s flagship product and serve a global customer base.<\/li>\n
        • Solve Complex Problems: Apply deep technical expertise and creativity to address large-scale engineering challenges, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience.<\/li>\n
        • Deliver Customer-Facing Solutions: Take end-to-end ownership of features-from design and development to deployment and operational support-ensuring exceptional quality and value for users.<\/li>\n
        • Collaborate Across Teams: Work effectively as part of a global, cross-functional team, partnering with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders to deliver impactful solutions and elevate team performance.<\/li>\n
        • Contribute to Engineering Culture: Champion best practices in code quality, scalability, documentation, monitoring, and testing, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.<\/li>\n
        • Learn and Grow: Stay engaged with new technologies and industry trends, bringing a growth mindset and a passion for delivering elegant solutions to complex problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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