About The Job

Navan is an all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management solution that eliminates the hassles of corporate travel & expense management while giving finance leaders real-time spend visibility and control.

The Frontend Architect plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of Navan's frontend infrastructure and developer experience across the organization. This role is central to architecting and maintaining the frontend platform that enables 20+ engineering teams to deploy independently while maintaining high quality standards. The Frontend Architect is essential to our mission, building shared libraries, developer tooling, and infrastructure, evolving the platform for both human and AI-assisted development, and driving performance and reliability initiatives.

What You'll Do

Architect Micro-Frontend Infrastructure: Design and evolve micro-frontend platform using Module Federation in React & Angular. Create and maintain shared NPM packages enforcing consistency and patterns across the organization. Drive team collaboration through architectural governance, review processes, and cross-functional alignment.
Drive Developer Platform Strategy: Create developer tools and automation that streamline workflows and boost productivity across engineering teams. Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for frontend implementation, browser testing, debugging, framework migrations, and delivery—from a task specification to a validated pull request. Author technical documentation and mentor engineers through code reviews.
Enable Reliable Coding Agent Workflows: Structure repositories, component libraries, documentation, and development environments so engineers and coding agents can reliably build, test, and extend the platform. Establish clear component contracts, runnable examples, predictable build and test commands, and reusable skills and integrations that provide relevant company context and actionable validation feedback.
Establish Shared Patterns for AI-Powered Experiences: Partner with product and AI platform teams to establish shared UI patterns for AI-powered experiences, including streaming responses, progress visibility, cancellation, error recovery, and user approval of consequential actions. Design reusable components with clear contracts that reduce integration time across teams.
Strengthen Testing and Validation: Establish fast, reliable feedback through component tests, browser automation, visual regression checks, and CI gates so changes can be validated consistently across teams. Define validation and human review requirements for AI-generated changes.
Drive Adoption and Measurable Outcomes: Pilot new workflows with engineering teams, measure delivery time, escaped defects, reliability, and AI usage cost, and turn successful approaches into supported company standards. Verify that tools, integrations, and workflows operate successfully in the teams and environments where they are adopted.
Partner on Secure AI-Assisted Development: Work with Security and the AI platform team to establish scoped tool access, safe handling of secrets and sensitive data, and clear accountability for agent-generated changes. Define appropriate human review and approval boundaries for frontend workflows.
Drive Reliability & Performance: Lead optimization initiatives to reduce bundle size and costs. Spearhead framework migrations delivering critical security fixes. Implement performance monitoring and optimization strategies that reduce latency and improve load times.

What We're Looking For

At least 8 years of experience in frontend software development
At least 3 years of experience in frontend architecture with demonstrated organization-wide impact
Deep expertise with React and TypeScript; experience with Angular is highly valued
Experience with micro-frontend architectures (Module Federation, single-spa, Web Components, or similar approaches)
Strong knowledge of build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) and monorepo management
Experience with testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E) and establishing testing standards across teams, including component testing, browser automation, visual regression checks, and CI validation
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to deliver production changes, with the ability to evaluate generated code, design effective validation, and explain where human review is necessary
Ability to demonstrate improvements in engineering delivery, quality, or reliability from AI-assisted workflows and drive adoption across teams
Practical understanding of scoped tool access, secrets, sensitive data, and accountability for AI-generated changes, in partnership with Security and AI platform teams
Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and drive consensus across multiple teams.
Nice to have: Experience with observability platforms, CDN optimization, Next.js or other meta-frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS

The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.

For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.

Pay Range

$129,600—$288,000 USD

Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.

Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.

Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email here. Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

About Navan

Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.

Culture of Excellence

Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025–2026), Forbes Cloud 100 (2022–2025), and CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022–2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life.

Our Benefits

Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family.

We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support*, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you.

Workplace Policy

Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

Equal Opportunity

Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.

Accommodations

Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law.

If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, you are welcome to email us at talent-accommodations@navan.com.

Candidate Privacy Notice and Use of AI

As part of the recruitment process, certain personal data may be processed using automated tools, including tools that use AI. For details on how Navan collects and uses your personal data, please review Navan's Candidate Privacy Notice here.

Job Search Best Practices

We have been made aware of recruitment scams involving fraudulent attempts to lure job seekers into sending money or personal information in return for fake job offers or coerce them into purchasing equipment by electronic funds transfer (Zelle, Venmo, etc.) Legitimate Navan recruiters will never ask for money in any recruitment or onboarding activities. All available job openings at Navan will be posted on Navan’s website and all Navan recruiters will be reachable through an email address ending in “@navan.com” or “@navan.tech” or "@talent.navan.com".

*Applies to select locations.