Navigator
Senior Platform Engineer
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Company Description
Navigator is a Travel Audience Platform that provides advertisers and media agencies with aggregated access to over 2 billion first-party travel intent signals from leading global airlines and travel brands. These signals are activated with precision across premium, multi-channel inventory to help partners reach highly relevant audiences. Navigator’s mission is to make travel audience intelligence the most valuable currency in commerce media by combining travel-native data, managed campaign delivery, flexible measurement, and open integrations with major DSPs and agency stacks. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in London, Navigator operates globally to support advertisers and agencies in building actionable, measurable campaigns. The company focuses on innovation, data-driven decision making, and collaborative partnerships in the travel and advertising ecosystem.
Role Description
The Senior Platform Engineer role is a full-time, hybrid position based in the London Area, United Kingdom, with flexibility for partial work from home. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable platform infrastructure that supports Navigator’s high-volume data and audience activation services.
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Day-to-day work includes:
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- Developing and optimizing backend services
- Implementing robust data flows and integrations
- Ensuring reliability, performance, and security across the platform
The Senior Platform Engineer will:
- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems
- Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and product teams
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps
Additionally, the role involves:
- Automation of deployment and operations
- Documentation of systems and processes
- Continuous improvement of engineering practices and tooling
Qualifications
- Strong software development and programming skills, with experience building scalable, reliable backend systems.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure design and operations, including cloud platforms, containerization, and automation tools.
- Proficiency with databases and data storage technologies, including design, optimization, and monitoring of data pipelines.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems, including diagnosing performance, reliability, and integration issues.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing), and security best practices in production environments.
- Background in high-traffic, data-intensive platforms, ideally in adtech, martech, or related domains, is beneficial.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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