Engineering Manager, Navan
$146.3-265k
3 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Travel management company
Job no longer available
Travel management company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$146.3-265k
3 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the legacy category of travel and expense with one of the first enterprise technologies utilising the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business needs with today's modern standards.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires strong spring boot, Java, Hibernate & MySQL technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to navigate the challenges of managing a fast-paced, evolving engineering team
- 5 or more years of experience building scalable systems
- 5 or more years of programming experience and system architecture
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical discipline
- Strong leadership skills to get things done by challenging the status quo and making decisions in a fast-moving, rapidly changing environment
- Proven experience coaching and mentoring engineers
- Strong technical background in making 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
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor a team of talented engineers, guiding the development of innovative, scalable solutions while ensuring best practices are followed
- You will be responsible for managing the technical and operational aspects of the team, driving project execution, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive
- Your role will be to translate business requirements into technical strategies, balancing the need for short-term results with long-term architectural vision
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and operations, to deliver high-quality products that meet business objectives
- Drive company-wide initiatives on some combination of software architecture, testing infrastructure, reliability, and/or software design
- Tackle increasingly bigger and more complex challenges as the company grows and do the best work of your career so far
- Challenge the status quo, think about how we make better products more efficiently
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, helping them grow professionally and technically
- Collaborate with PM & Design team to define project scope and deliverables
- Drive technical execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to quality standards
- Set performance goals, conduct regular performance evaluations, and provide feedback
- Maintain and improve development processes to increase team productivity and efficiency
- Stay current with industry trends and incorporate best practices into the team's workflow
Our take
Navan (formerly known as TripActions) is operating in a crowded marketplace, betting against rivals with similar offerings of user interface personalisation technology. Even so, the company's growth has skyrocketed and it has attracted significant investor interest. Competitors cannot match Navan's cutting-edge, AI-driven services, as well as 24-hour customer support.
Since its founding in 2015 the company has seen significant growth in transactions and in active users. Having expanded from its core travel expense management product, it now offers a corporate card and general expenses management, underwriting its customers' short term business expenses with its own Liquid financial offering. Navan has a list of impressive clients, including Glassdoor, Zoom, and Shopify.
Moving forwards, the company is focused on gaining more reach, especially in Europe. As part of the expanded go-to-market strategy, it rebranded to Navan with a more people-centric design approach. It also combined its travel, corporate card and expense services into a single app which is now available to individual users rather than only through a corporate account. This will be key in bridging the gap between business travel and consumer apps.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
45% female employees
-40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2022
$154m
SERIES G
Oct 2021
$275m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation
- Healthcare
- Commuter benefits
- Parental leave
- Health and Wellness
- Fuel for Connection
- Pet Friendly
- 401k (retirement plan)
- IATAN (travel-related discounts)
- Connectivity Allowance
- Learning & Development
Company values
- Focus on Users
- Tech-Forward Solutions
- Lead with Context
- Communicate with Candor
- Raise the Bar
- One Diverse Team
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Ariel Cohen
(CEO)Research and Development director in Mercury Interactive (and HP after acquisition of Mercury). Product Management director, then VP, at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ilan.
Ilan Twig
(CTO)Studied Computer Science, managing positions in software engineering including VP and EVP of engineering at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ariel.
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