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# Staff Full Stack Engineer at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8300972

## Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Tel Aviv. You will design and build AI-powered products and workflow automation that help our teams deliver better customer experiences.

As the team’s technical lead, you will shape architecture, guide engineering decisions, and lead complex initiatives from discovery through production. You’ll remain deeply involved in implementation while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Design, and Operations to turn ambiguous business needs into reliable, scalable solutions.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the team’s technical direction, lead architecture and design reviews, and guide implementation across frontend, backend, and integrations.
- Design, build, and deliver impactful product capabilities, from identifying user needs through deployment and ongoing improvement.
- Build reliable backend services and event-driven workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
- Develop AI-powered experiences with grounding, evaluation, human review, and clear failure handling.
- Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, security, privacy, AI safety, cost management, and operational readiness.
- Own production quality and supportability, using usage data, customer feedback, and production insights to improve reliability, usefulness, and adoption.
- Mentor engineers, grow their technical ownership, and raise the team’s engineering standards.
- Partner with Product, Design, Operations, SRE, Security, Data Science, Legal, and engineering teams across Travel and Expense to understand problems, resolve ambiguity, and define clear requirements.
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, coordinating cross-team initiatives and dependencies.

## What We’re Looking For

- Strong programming skills and computer science fundamentals, with 6+ years of experience building production SaaS products.
- Strong production experience with Java and Spring Boot, including designing, building, and operating backend services.
- Proven experience designing and operating event-driven systems, including reliable message delivery, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
- Full-stack development experience with React or Angular, and proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API design, relational databases, transactions, and ORM technologies such as Hibernate.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: setting architectural direction, leading complex initiatives, making sound trade-offs, and helping other engineers deliver effectively.
- Experience delivering LLM-powered capabilities to production, including evaluation, monitoring, and quality improvement.
- A strong sense of ownership, demonstrated through maintainable production code, meaningful testing, monitoring, and documentation.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with stakeholders and domain experts to translate business problems into practical technical solutions.
- Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Curiosity, a practical approach to problem-solving, and a willingness to learn and adopt new tools and technologies.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Node.js and backend frameworks such as NestJS.
- Experience with AWS, containerized services, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
- Experience building internal tools or automating complex operational workflows.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation platforms, retrieval systems, and agent tooling.

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.

Human oversight: 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.

- Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

## About Navan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Navan is the leading all-in-one, AI-powered business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes corporate travel effortless for frequent travelers while giving finance teams full control.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: **NAVN**, listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Corporate travel management, expense management, travel technology, payments.
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies; also SMBs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make travel easy for every traveler by being the best travel agency on the planet."

## Products & Services
- **Navan Travel**: AI-powered booking platform for flights, hotels, and ground transportation with extensive inventory access (including NDC content from 17+ airlines).
- **Navan Expense**: Automated expense management that categorizes and reconciles receipts, with real-time policy enforcement and integration with ERPs.
- **Navan Edge**: AI travel assistant (chat-based) that handles bookings and provides 24/7 human support.
- **Navan Rewards**: Incentive program that rewards employees for booking below budget.
- **Navan Connect (BYOC)**: Card-link technology that connects corporate cards from 250+ banks, enabling unified spend visibility.
- **Navan Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual cards for payments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (post-IPO, real-time market cap available on exchanges).
- **Key Metric**: **Total Headcount** ~3,300 employees (as of 2026); **Number of customers** – thousands, including major enterprises like Heineken, Unilever, Wayfair, and Zoom.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources, but strategic partners include Amadeus (dual-GDS model) and major airlines via NDC.
- **Growth Signals**: Went public in October 2025; expanded globally through acquisitions of Comtravo (Germany), Resia (France), Tripeur (India), and Reed & MacKay (Europe); now operates 50 offices worldwide; first TMC to integrate AI across the entire platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first platform**: First travel management company to embed AI across search, booking, expense reconciliation, and customer service.
- **All-in-one T&E**: Combines travel, expense, and payments in a single system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Dual-GDS model**: Integrated with both Sabre and Amadeus, providing global coverage and competitive pricing.
- **NDC leader**: Offers access to 17 airlines’ New Distribution Capability content for better fares and inventory.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue leading in AI-powered travel and expense innovation.
- Expand corporate card and payments ecosystem (Navan Connect, external card linking).
- Deepen enterprise capabilities and global footprint (targeting mid-market and large multinationals).
- Drive user adoption through employee rewards and seamless mobile experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in office (Palo Alto HQ and other global offices). Strong emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- **Culture**: Meritocratic, high-ownership, “high-talent density” environment. Values include extreme ownership, bias to action, “AI-first mindset”, and “seriously fun”.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - Flexible vacation (take time off as needed, manager coordination).
  - Paid parental leave (16 weeks birthing parent, 10 weeks non-birthing).
  - 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discount.
  - Medical, dental, vision, pet insurance.
  - Commuter benefits, in-office snacks and lunches, dog-friendly offices.
  - Headspace mental health subscription.
  - Navan personal travel discounts (employee leisure bookings at corporate rates).
  - Connectivity allowance (bi-weekly stipend for remote work).
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling public company; teams across engineering, product, data science, travel operations, and R&D.

## Sources
1. [navan.com](https://navan.com/ – Product overview, platform details)
2. [navan.com/about](https://navan.com/about – Company history, mission, timeline, IPO)
3. [navan.com/careers](https://navan.com/careers – Culture, values, benefits, work model)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/navan – Headcount, offices, hybrid policy, perks)

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