# Founding Software Engineer

**Company**: Navi
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You're building the platform that makes Navi happen. This is a founding engineering role. You'll own entire systems end to end , the backend and data pipelines that power Navi's AI, the interfaces instructors and squadron commanders depend on daily, the architecture decisions that take this company from startup to aviation standard.

## Responsibilities

- Build and scale the backend and data infrastructure that powers Navi's AI platform

- Work directly with pilots, instructors, and military operators to build tools that work in the cockpit and the classroom

- Integrate flight dynamics, telemetry, and cockpit audio into intelligent debrief and training systems

- Make the architecture calls that define how Navi scales , the frameworks, the infrastructure, the technical bets

- Ship code that goes live in aircraft , then iterate on real operator feedback, not hypotheticals

- Interface with engineers across the entire stack from hardware integration to AI/ML to frontend.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing, building, and operating complex systems in production

- Demonstrated ability to lead projects end to end , from scoping and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration , with minimal direction

- Deep expertise in at least one core area (backend systems, distributed infrastructure, data engineering, or full-stack development) and working fluency across others

- Experience designing systems for scale, reliability, and performance , you've made meaningful architectural decisions and lived with the consequences

- Strong engineering judgment: you know when to build, when to buy, and when to cut scope. You make pragmatic tradeoffs under real constraints

- History of raising the bar for teams around you , through code reviews, technical mentorship, establishing best practices, or driving engineering culture

- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving fast without sacrificing quality. You've shipped in environments where the roadmap wasn't fully defined

- Experience with modern data pipelines, real-time systems, or AI/ML integration

- You've built something from zero , a product, a startup, a system that people actually used

- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, containerization, and modern deployment tooling

- Comfortable working directly with non-technical users and translating operator needs into engineering decisions

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with aviation systems, avionics data formats, or defense technology environments

## Benefits

- Early-stage equity , real ownership in a category-defining company

- Flight training , earn your pilot's license and build with true domain expertise

- Impact you can see , your work will be used by pilots, flight schools, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force

- A role that scales into technical leadership as we grow

## Skills

### Required
- backend systems
- distributed infrastructure
- data engineering
- full-stack development
- cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- CI/CD
- containerization
- modern deployment tooling
- AI/ML integration
- real-time systems

### Nice to have
- aviation systems
- avionics data formats
- defense technology environments

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