Title: Engineering Manager Location: New York, NY Hybrid Job Description: Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As an Engineering Manager in the Flights group, you’ll play an essential part in building and scaling the next-generation flight platform, Navan’s flagship product that drives global business growth. This is a high-scale, complex environment where your work will impact customers worldwide. You’ll solve challenging problems, collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers across the globe, and contribute to a platform trusted by major enterprises. You will be the hands-on leader for the Flight Content team and will push the boundaries of great business travel products. The Flight Content team owns the critical backend components that drive the flight shopping experience and are relied upon by all Navan Products and Travelers. As a leader and manager of the area, you will be partnering with product management and stakeholders to develop a vision and roadmap for your product area. In addition to being a strong and execution oriented leader, the role requires you to exercise your technical chops and scale the architecture across a variety of systems, make the system highly reliable, dive into product metrics and come up with insights to improve the overall product. What You’ll Do: Navan has transformed the corporate travel, payment, and expense landscape by consistently prioritizing user needs. As an Engineering Manager in the Flights group, you’ll play an essential part in building and scaling the next-generation flight platform, Navan’s flagship product that drives global business growth. This is a high-scale, complex environment where your work will impact customers worldwide. You’ll solve challenging problems, collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers across the globe, and contribute to a platform trusted by major enterprises. You will be the hands-on leader for the Flight Content team and will push the boundaries of great business travel products. The Flight Content team owns the critical backend components that drive the flight shopping experience and are relied upon by all Navan Products and Travelers. As a leader and manager of the area, you will be partnering with product management and stakeholders to develop a vision and roadmap for your product area. In addition to being a strong and execution oriented leader, the role requires you to exercise your technical chops and scale the architecture across a variety of systems, make the system highly reliable, dive into product metrics and come up with insights to improve the overall product. What You’ll Do: - Lead & Mentor: Manage, coach, and grow a team of 3-5 talented engineers. Set performance goals, conduct regular 1:1s, and provide actionable feedback. - Technical Leadership: Guide architectural decisions and trade-offs for our stack (Java/Spring Boot, AWS), ensuring the team delivers scalable, secure, and highly available services. - 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. - Process Optimization: Maintain and improve agile development processes. Organize schedules, track deliverables, check work for technical accuracy, and ensure robust operational reliability. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effectively communicate and coordinate work with Product Management, Design and other managers and staff across the organization to seamlessly integrate complex, cross-team features. - Team Building: Identify staffing needs, lead hiring efforts, and onboard top-tier engineering talent to scale your team. - 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. What We're Looking For: - 3+ years of experience building and leading high performing teams of at least 6 engineers - 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems in fast-paced, high-growth, or large-scale environments (open to exceptional candidates with less experience) - Hands-on experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing or core business products at scale - Strong leadership skills to get things done by challenging the status quo and making decisions in a fast-moving, rapidly changing environment - Strong technical background in at least one domain with ability to make long-term architectural decisions and trade-offs. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems - Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with solid understanding of JVM performance and optimization - Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design, including practical expertise with AWS or other cloud platforms - Ownership mentality with a record of delivering production-quality, maintainable code, and supporting features post-release through monitoring and troubleshooting - Collaborative team player able to work effectively with global, cross-functional partners - Commitment to engineering best practices in testing, documentation, scalability, and code quality - Problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling technically demanding and customer-impacting challenges - Domain knowledge in the travel industry (flights, bookings, or inventory management) is a strong plus - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience 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 $135,000—$300,000 USD About Navan Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com. Culture of Excellence Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025-2026), a CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022-2025), and a Forbes Fintech 50 (2022-2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life. Our Benefits Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family. We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support*, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you. Workplace Policy Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office. Equal Opportunity Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring. Accommodations Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. 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