Senior Android Engineer

Navan is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and enhance our mobile applications in the business expense management space. As a key contributor, you will work closely with our international team of engineers and domain experts to build new features and improve our product.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing high-quality Android applications.
• Strong understanding of the full app development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and building user interfaces with Jetpack Compose.
• Solid understanding of the Android SDK: app components (Activities, Services, receivers, providers), how Android applications fit into the OS lifecycle (notifications, deep links, battery modes, network state, persisting data, permissions), performance tuning and optimization, Gradle builds and modules.
• Strong understanding of concurrency practices and experience working with coroutines.
• Must be capable of making architectural judgment calls based on real data and requirements.
• Working knowledge of MVVM and standard multi-tier architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and publishing to the Play Store.
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.
• Experience using AI / LLM tools in day-to-day development.
• Experience with modern Android frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt and OkHttp/Retrofit.
• Experience building automated test suites with Espresso/kakao.
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices, OAuth, mobile app authentication, data safety, Material Design principles, mobile UX practices, and patterns.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and ship Android features in a large production app.
• Contribute to Android infrastructure so delivery stays fast and reliable.
• Review code, give feedback to other developers, and write technical documentation.
• Lead development initiatives, whether by introducing new technologies or by raising the bar for existing code, practices, or architecture.
• Take part in decisions with peers and stakeholders on technology, design, and product direction.
• Triage product and application issues, and respond quickly to customer problems.

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.