# Senior Back-End Engineer
**Company:** [Navan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/navan)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Salary:** $113K-$252K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, AWS, Spring Framework, Hibernate, APIs, Distributed Systems, Orm
**Posted:** 2026-03-11
> Designs and implements backend APIs and core services for mission-critical payment/booking features. Requires 5+ years experience, strong architecture skills, ownership, and leadership; Java/AWS/Spring a plus.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do
- Designing and implementing APIs and core services
- Developing models and business logic
- Building out impactful product features
- Ensure the quality of the features you built, follow-up on usage/issues post release
- Work closely with product and design team to deliver new features that align with the needs of the business
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
- Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
- Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies

## What We’re Looking For
- Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals combined with 5+ years of experience building products
- Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
- Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
- Passion for solving problems and learning new tools and technologies
- Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products
- Experience with **Java**, **AWS** and/or distributed systems is a plus
- Experience with **Hibernate** or similar ORM technologies is a plus
- Experience with **Spring Framework** is a plus
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