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, building shared libraries, developer tooling, and infrastructure, evolving the platform for both human and AI-assisted development, 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, review processes, and cross-functional alignment.
Drive Developer Platform Strategy: Create developer tools and automation that streamline workflows and boost productivity across engineering teams.
Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for frontend implementation, browser testing, debugging, framework migrations, and delivery—from a task specification to a validated pull request.
Author technical documentation and mentor engineers through code reviews.
Enable Reliable Coding Agent Workflows: 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.
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