Frontend Architect
$129.6k - $288k
Senior, Expert
Palo Alto, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringFrontend Engineering
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- 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, such as Module Federation, single-spa, Web Components, or similar approaches.
- Strong knowledge of build tooling such as Webpack, Vite, and Rollup, and monorepo management.
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies and establishing testing standards across teams, including component testing, browser automation, visual regression checks, and continuous integration validation.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to deliver production changes, evaluate generated code, design effective validation, and explain where human review is necessary.
- Ability to demonstrate improvements in engineering delivery, quality, or reliability from AI-assisted workflows and drive adoption across teams.
- Practical understanding of scoped tool access, secrets, sensitive data, and accountability for AI-generated changes, in partnership with Security and AI platform teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with team members and drive consensus across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the micro-frontend platform using Module Federation in React and Angular.
- Create and maintain shared NPM packages that enforce consistency and patterns across the organization.
- Drive team collaboration through architectural governance, review processes, and cross-functional alignment.
- Create developer tools and automation that streamline workflows and improve productivity across engineering teams.
- Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for frontend implementation, browser testing, debugging, framework migrations, and delivery from task specification to validated pull request.
- Author technical documentation and mentor engineers through code reviews.
- Structure repositories, component libraries, documentation, and development environments so engineers and coding agents can reliably build, test, and extend the platform.
- Establish clear component contracts, runnable examples, predictable build and test commands, and reusable skills and integrations that provide relevant company context and actionable validation feedback.
- Partner with product and AI platform teams to establish shared UI patterns for AI-powered experiences, including streaming responses, progress visibility, cancellation, error recovery, and user approval of consequential actions.
- Design reusable components with clear contracts that reduce integration time across teams.
- Establish fast, reliable feedback through component tests, browser automation, visual regression checks, and continuous integration gates so changes can be validated consistently across teams.
- Define validation and human-review requirements for AI-generated changes.
- Pilot new workflows with engineering teams, measure delivery time, escaped defects, reliability, and AI usage cost, and turn successful approaches into supported company standards.
- Verify that tools, integrations, and workflows operate successfully in the teams and environments where they are adopted.
- Work with Security and the AI platform team to establish scoped tool access, safe handling of secrets and sensitive data, and clear accountability for agent-generated changes.
- Define appropriate human-review and approval boundaries for frontend workflows.
- Lead optimization initiatives to reduce bundle size and costs.
- Spearhead framework migrations that deliver critical security fixes.
- Implement performance monitoring and optimization strategies that reduce latency and improve load times.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with observability platforms, content delivery network optimization, Next.js or other meta-frameworks, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, and AWS.
About the company
Navan runs a business travel and expense platform for companies, combining trip booking with tools that let finance teams track and control employee spending. Travelers search flights, hotels, trains, and rental cars through its website or mobile app, while administrators set booking limits and approval rules. Its expense software captures receipts, categorizes purchases, reimburses employees, and sends records to accounting systems, keeping travel and finance work in the same service. The company earns usage fees from its travel and payments business alongside software subscriptions. Navan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Demand grew: Navan's September 2026 results showed quarterly revenue of $233 million, up 35% year over year.
- US parents receive leave: Navan lists 16 paid weeks for birthing parents and 10 for non-birthing parents.
- Navan lowers adoption costs: travel tools are free for companies with up to 300 employees.
What critics are saying
- Operating losses widened: Navan's September 2026 results showed $26 million in quarterly GAAP losses, versus $12 million a year earlier.
- Office attendance limits flexibility: Navan's R&D careers page specifies three weekly office days for office-based roles.
- Navan relies on card partners: Celtic Bank and regional payments providers issue its cards.
What makes Navan unique
- Navan aligns traveler incentives with savings: its funded rewards turn below-target hotel bookings into credits for personal stays.
- Navan avoids forcing a card switch: Connect links existing Visa, Mastercard, and American Express corporate cards.
- Navan serves demanding travelers through Navan Pro: its Reed & Mackay subsidiary handles board members and high-profile guests.
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Benefits
- Flexible Vacation: Take time off when you need it, just work with your manager.
- Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Commuter benefits: Pre-tax transit dollars, $70 a month to ease your commute.
- Parental leave: All parents (birthing and non-birthing) are eligible for paid leave.
- Health and Wellness: Annual wellness stipend and access to a full spectrum of resources.
- Fuel for Connection: We provide in-office snacks and lunches*, fostering community and in-person connections.
- Pet Friendly: Pet insurance with preferred rates and dog friendly offices*.
- 401k: We care about your future and offer a 401k retirement plan program and company match.
- IATAN: Employees can register and receive access to thousands of travel related discounts.
- Connectivity Allowance: We support our employees ability to work seamlessly and confidently while from home and offer a bi-weekly stipend
- Learning & Development: Annual Learning and Development allowance to propel professional growth