Staff Android Engineer
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- Work type
- On-site
- Location
- Redwood City, CA
- Posted
- 56 days ago
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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About Navan
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
Navan currently has 20 open roles on FindRole.
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At a glance
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.
Skills
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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