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, responsible for building shared libraries, developer tooling, and infrastructure, as well as ensuring seamless integration of AI/ML capabilities, 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, code review processes, and cross-functional alignment.
- Drive Developer Platform Strategy: Create developer tools and automation that streamline workflows and boost productivity across engineering teams. Design AI-enabled tooling to accelerate development processes, including intelligent code generation, automated testing, and smart debugging capabilities. Author technical documentation and mentor engineers through code reviews.
- Enable AI/ML Platform Capabilities: Partner with AI teams to build integration, model management workflows, and AI-assisted tools. Design standardized AI components with contract-based messaging to reduce integration time.
- 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.
- 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.
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