Navan - Staff Android Engineer

Description :

Navan is looking for a Staff Android Engineer to serve as a technical architect for our mobile ecosystem.

In this role, you will solve organization-wide technical challenges, focusing on high-level system architecture, cross-platform strategy, and technical leadership.

You will ensure our mobile platform can scale to support engineers and complex global travel requirements without friction.

What You'll Do :

- Drive the Vision : Partner with engineering and product leadership to identify, plan, and execute the long-term technical vision for the Android platform.

- Architect Scalable Systems : Drive frameworks and modularization strategies that lead to significant improvements in developer velocity and user experience.

- Lead Through Influence : Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other mobile engineers across multiple teams.

- Resolve Systemic Debt : Identify and resolve organization-wide technical debt, assisting teams in understanding and adopting new technologies safely.

- Optimize Developer Experience : Improve CI/CD pipelines and Gradle build performance to support a large-scale engineering organization.

- Collaborate Cross-Functionally : Work closely with Product and Sales teams to deliver high-impact features that align with global business needs.

What Were Looking For :

- 8-10 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on large-scale distributed mobile systems.

- Architectural Mastery : Proven experience turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, scalable architectural solutions.

- Deep Systems Knowledge : Expertise in lower-level Android concerns : bytecode manipulation, custom Gradle plugins, and advanced threading models.

- Leadership : Demonstrated ability to influence, working with technical and cross-functional teams to drive alignment.

- Modern Ecosystem : In-depth experience with the modern Android stack (Kotlin, Compose, Coroutines) and cloud-based mobile infrastructure.

- Problem Solver : Comfort with thinking outside the box to implement solutions for high-volume, enterprise-grade applications.

- Strategic Thinking : Experience designing mobile architectures that support global localization, accessibility, and high-performance data syncing.

- Innovation Mindset : Ability to leverage AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate the mobile SDLC while maintaining strict quality gates

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