Senior Backend Platform Developer, Contact Center Systems

Navan, Inc.
Palo Alto, United States of America
7 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 264K

Job location

Palo Alto, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Code Review
Continuous Integration
Customer Data Management
Software Debugging
Github
Routing
Node.js
Software Tools
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Systems Architecture
Twilio
TypeScript
Datadog
Data Logging
Genesys
Snowflake
AWS Lambda
Backend
Cloudformation
Api Design
Cloudwatch
Api Gateway
Kibana
Terraform
Code Restructuring
Data Pipelines
Serverless Computing

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Platform Developer to build modern services for Navan's contact center systems. This is a software engineering role first: where you will design APIs, serverless services, data flows, observability tooling, and AI-enabled workflows that support our customer and agent experience.

The contact center is the domain, but the core need is strong development capability. The right person is comfortable building production systems, integrating complex platforms, and using AI-assisted engineering tools to move quickly without sacrificing quality.

What You'll Do:

  • Production-grade Node.js services on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and event-driven serverless patterns.
  • Secure APIs and integrations across internal systems, customer data, and third-party platforms.
  • Technical patterns, implementation standards, and reusable services for the broader contact center systems roadmap.
  • Observability pipelines using OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Kibana, Snowflake, and structured logging.
  • Automation and AI-enabled workflows that improve routing, agent support, troubleshooting, and operational visibility.
  • Migration tooling and services that help move legacy telephony and contact center workflows onto modern platforms, with enough design discipline to support future scale.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally with Node.js or TypeScript.
  • Strong API design, system architecture, integration, debugging, and asynchronous systems experience.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda or similar cloud/serverless architecture.
  • Experience with logging, monitoring, search, data pipelines, or production observability.
  • Practical use of AI coding assistants for development, testing, refactoring, and troubleshooting.
  • Fluency with GitHub workflows, including pull requests, code review, branching, and CI/CD collaboration.
  • Senior-level judgment to turn ambiguous operational problems into clean, maintainable technical solutions.

Helpful Domain Experience

  • Experience in contact center, telephony, customer support, or workflow automation environments.
  • Exposure to platforms such as Genesys Cloud, Twilio, Five9, NICE, Zoom Contact Center, or Avaya.
  • Familiarity with routing, queues, IVR, SIP, phone number management, call metadata, or agent-assist workflows.
  • Experience with Snowflake SQL, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS SAM, or related infrastructure tooling.

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