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Sr. Software Engineer, Frontend

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113K-252K Annually
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New York, NY, USA
113K-252K Annually
Senior level
Lead hands-on frontend engineering for Navan’s Edge team, building and improving frontend systems, frameworks, developer tooling, and delivery pipelines. Own features end to end, collaborate with product, design, data science, and engineering teams, conduct design and code reviews, improve performance monitoring and reliability, and mentor engineers. The role also involves full-stack collaboration, driving technical change, and enhancing developer experience and delivery quality.
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At Navan, “It’s all about the user.  All of them.” We’re passionate about providing a seamless one-stop experience for business travelers, no matter how they travel, where they stay, or where they’re going. Our engineers work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to build innovative tools and services that make hotel booking seamless, efficient, and enjoyable. 

This is a very unique role that combines the small team feeling of a startup launching a brand new product, with the perks, opportunity size, and impact of an established company. Our team is building the next big thing, from scratch, but all within the hyper-growth context of Navan. You have a chance to heavily impact the roadmap of a nascent product and organization.

As a technical leader and contributor on the Edge team, you will partner closely with other engineers to drive change and improve frontend systems and developer experience. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors are expected to be hands on and contribute code.

What You’ll Do:

  • Experience with Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular Frameworks 
  • Collaborate on application design with application development teams
  • Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation
  • Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
  • Able to work in full stack development as well. Knowledge of backend systems is a plus.
  • Ability to own features end to end, from collaborating with product, designers, and shipping features and monitoring impacts.
  • Perform design and code reviews of other engineers at Navan
  • Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly
  • Experience building developer frameworks that improve developer velocity, code quality and code health
  • Expert at front end operational excellence - reliability, performance, instrumentation and measurability first
  • Understand technical aspects of our frontend systems and identify areas for improvement
  • Drive changes to frontend pipeline in efforts to improve developer experience and time to ship
  • Work with team to define approach for application performance monitoring and improvement
  • Mentor engineers on best practices and patterns

What We’re Looking for:

  • 5+ years of UI development experience
  • Track record of driving change in engineering organizations
  • Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
  • Experience with SpringBoot 
  • Experience with React
  • Knowledge with Jenkins
The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
Pay Range
$113,400$252,000 USD

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