Navan

Sr. Software Engineer, AI

Navan$113K — $252K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience in production systems, with extensive hands-on work in AI or ML-powered products.
  • Proficient in developing agentic systems and structured LLM outputs.
  • Strong backend development skills, ideally in TypeScript/Node.js, Java, or Python.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, APIs, and production debugging.
  • Understanding of AI safety practices including guardrails and handling PII-sensitive workflows.
  • Product-oriented mindset with the ability to address user needs effectively.
  • Strong ownership mentality with a focus on post-release support and iteration.
  • Experience in travel, loyalty programs, or personalized consumer data is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop AI-driven workflows for managing travel loyalty programs.
  • Build production-ready AI systems with structured outputs and human interaction points.
  • Ensure quality of agents and workflows through robust testing and evaluation protocols.
  • Collaborate across team layers including front-end, back-end, and AI integration.
  • Transform loyalty program data into actionable insights and personalized recommendations.
  • Work alongside product, design, and data teams to enhance customer experiences.
  • Promote high engineering standards and best practices in code quality and documentation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology in the travel loyalty space.
  • Collaborative environment encouraging cross-functional teamwork.
  • Focus on developing maintainable and high-quality software solutions.
  • Strong emphasis on continual learning and skill development.
Full Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer, AI on the Loyalty Wallet team, you'll build agentic product experiences that understand a traveler's loyalty programs, surface useful insights, and safely help users manage their memberships through Navan Edge.

What You'll Do:
  • Build AI-Powered Product Experiences: Design and develop agentic workflows that help users view, understand, connect, and manage their loyalty programs through chat, wallet surfaces, and personalized recommendations.
  • Develop Production AI Systems: Build reliable LLM-powered flows with structured outputs, tool calling, guardrails, human confirmation, evals, and monitoring for real customer-facing use cases.
  • Own Agent and Workflow Quality: Create and maintain scenario tests, adversarial evals, prompt/tool contracts, and quality metrics that ensure agents behave safely around loyalty data, PII, financial guidance, and unsupported requests.
  • Integrate Across the Stack: Work across frontend, backend, and AI orchestration layers, including wallet APIs, streaming chat experiences, UI components, data services, and ML/LLM workflows.
  • Turn Data Into Personalization: Help transform loyalty balances, tier progress, membership data, connected email signals, and trip context into useful recommendations and next-best actions.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product, design, backend, data, and platform teams to ship polished, measurable customer experiences.
  • Raise the Engineering Bar: Champion maintainable code, thoughtful abstractions, strong tests, observability, documentation, and operational ownership.

What We're Looking For:
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience building production systems, with meaningful hands-on experience in AI, LLM, agent, workflow, or ML-powered products.
  • Experience building agentic systems, tool-calling workflows, RAG-like systems, structured LLM outputs, eval pipelines, or AI assistants in production.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or similar backend/product engineering stacks.
  • Experience with distributed systems, APIs, async workflows, caching, observability, and production debugging.
  • Comfort working with AI safety patterns such as guardrails, HITL confirmation, deterministic tool boundaries, hallucination prevention, and PII-sensitive workflows.
  • Product mindset and ability to translate ambiguous user needs into robust, user-facing experiences.
  • Strong ownership mentality, with the ability to ship, measure, iterate, and support features after release.
  • Experience with travel, loyalty programs, personalization, fintech, or consumer data products is a strong plus.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.


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

$113,400-$252,000 USD

About Navan

Navan is a mining company that focuses on the exploration and development of mineral properties. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Navan's primary focus is on the exploration and development of gold and silver properties in North America. The company's management team has extensive experience in the mining industry, and is committed to responsible and sustainable mining practices. Navan is a publicly traded company, and its shares are listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange.
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Size
10 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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