Staff Android Engineer

Navan

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Location
Redwood City, CA
Posted
56 days ago

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Navan (formerly TripActions) is a travel and expense management platform that provides corporate travel booking, expense management, and card solutions to simplify business travel for enterprises. Industry: Travel Management & Financial Technology

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TL;DR · Staff Android Engineer

Navan seeks a Staff Android Engineer to serve as a technical architect for its mobile ecosystem, focusing on high-level system architecture and cross-platform strategy. This role involves driving the long-term technical vision, improving developer velocity through scalable frameworks, and mentoring other engineers while resolving systemic technical debt. The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines, as well as deep knowledge of Android's lower-level concerns like bytecode manipulation and custom Gradle plugins. They should be adept at influencing cross-functional teams to adopt new technologies safely and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for a large engineering organization.

What you'll do

  • Drive the long-term technical vision for the Android platform in partnership with leadership.
  • Architect scalable systems to enhance developer velocity and user experience significantly.
  • Resolve organization-wide technical debt by identifying and implementing solutions.
  • Optimize CI/CD pipelines and Gradle build performance for large-scale engineering needs.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to mobile engineers across multiple teams.
  • Collaborate with Product and Sales teams to deliver high-impact features aligned with global business goals.

What we're looking for

  • 8-10 years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed mobile systems.
  • Proven ability to architect scalable solutions for complex technical challenges.
  • Expertise in Android low-level concerns including bytecode manipulation and custom Gradle plugins.
  • Leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams and drive technical alignment.
  • Deep knowledge of modern Android technologies like Kotlin, Compose, and Coroutines.
  • Strategic thinking to design mobile architectures supporting global localization and high-performance data syncing.

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