# Manager, Engineering at Navan

> India · Manager · Engineering management · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Atripactions%3A8237265 (read 2026-11-11).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Navan](https://alderhq.app/companies/navan)
- Location text: Bengaluru, IN; Bengaluru
- Where it can be done from (inferred): India (evidence: "Location lists "bengaluru"")
- Posted: 2026-11-11 (0 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-11 · last verified: 2026-11-11
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8237265
- Skills listed (inferred): LLMs, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 2 ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))
- Recognised sponsor (NL): registered as "Navan Netherlands B.V." (checked 2026-11-09, [register](https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public-register-regular-labour-and-highly-skilled-migrants))
- Recognised sponsor (NL): registered as "Navan Netherlands Labs B.V." (checked 2026-11-09, [register](https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public-register-regular-labour-and-highly-skilled-migrants))
- Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Navan Labs UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-09, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers))

## Description (the employer's text)

### About the Role

Navan's GOS engineering team builds the shared platform and capabilities that help teams across Navan develop, evaluate, deploy, and operate AI-powered products safely and at scale. The team focuses on reusable AI services that reduce repetitive manual workflows, along with model and provider integrations, evaluation and observability, guardrails, and a strong developer experience.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 5-10 full-stack engineers. You will translate business and product needs into a clear technical strategy, balance near-term delivery with long-term platform investments, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.

### What You Will Do

- Lead and Develop the Team: Manage, coach, and grow a team of 5-10 engineers. Set clear expectations, hold regular one-on-ones, provide actionable feedback, and support career development.
- Set Technical Direction: Guide architecture and engineering trade-offs for shared AI services and platform capabilities, with a focus on scalability, security, reliability, and ease of adoption.
- Drive Delivery: Turn strategy into realistic roadmaps, milestones, and ownership. Manage dependencies and risks while helping the team deliver measurable product and platform outcomes.
- Gather and Clarify Requirements: Work closely with Operations, SRE, Security, Data Science, Legal, and engineering teams across Travel and Expense to understand problems, resolve ambiguity, and define clear requirements.
- Raise the Quality Bar: Establish practices for AI evaluation, observability, privacy, safety, cost management, and operational readiness. Use data and production feedback to improve the platform.
- Build Strong Partnerships: Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Coordinate cross-team initiatives and create alignment around shared priorities.
- Scale the Organization: Identify staffing needs, lead hiring and onboarding, and improve engineering processes as the team and its responsibilities grow.
### What We Are Looking For

- Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience building scalable systems, including at least 2 years of direct engineering management experience.
- Technical Depth: Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Experience with AI or machine learning platforms, large language model applications, or developer platforms is valuable.
- Engineering Judgment: Ability to evaluate architecture, make practical trade-offs, and guide teams through complex technical and operational decisions.
- Leadership and Execution: A record of building healthy teams, managing delivery across competing priorities, and holding a high bar for quality and ownership.
- Communication: Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical concepts, decisions, and risks to different audiences.
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
### Good to Have

- Knowledge of the travel domain, including corporate travel, booking, servicing, or expense workflows.
- Strong product knowledge and a product-minded approach to connecting platform investments with customer and business needs.
- Experience working with varied stakeholders to gather requirements, reconcile competing needs, and turn ambiguous problems into an executable plan.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a record of simplifying complex technical or business challenges.
- Hands-on exposure to large language models, model providers, retrieval systems, evaluations, observability, or AI governance.
- Experience building shared capabilities that are adopted by multiple product and engineering teams.
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.

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