AI Engineer

About Nava Benefits

Nava is on a mission to #fixhealthcare. Nearly 160M Americans rely on their employers for healthcare — yet the system is broken, bloated, and dominated by incumbents who resist change. Nava fuses deep benefits expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver a modern, transparent, and affordable healthcare experience.

Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs and backed by leading investors, Nava is one of the fastest-growing benefits brokerages in the country. We’re the first to combine brokerage know-how with proprietary tech like HQ: our AI-powered benefits platform, designed to help HR teams take control of renewals, simplify strategy, eliminate spreadsheet chaos, and empower employees to navigate their benefits with ease.

In a $50B industry hungry for change, Nava is built to win — lowering costs for employers, delighting employees, and reshaping how healthcare works for millions of Americans.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with product, engineering, and design to identify customer and team pain points and build generative AI solutions using software engineering best practices
• Work across the full stack - frontend, backend, and infrastructure - integrating AI capabilities directly into applications
• Build intelligent search and retrieval systems that help users find relevant information quickly
• Design effective interactions with foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) to achieve reliable behaviors
• Ship AI-powered features with the same reliability and performance standards as any other application components

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years developing modern full-stack web applications on client- and server-side web applications with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience building applications with foundation models through direct API integration
• Proven ability to work with product, engineering, and design teams to identify user problems and translate them into technical solutions, leading the initiative for how to build delightful AI (generative) solutions
• Comfortable working across the full application stack
• Strong communication skills for working with cross-functional teams that are not on the technology side of the business
• An understanding of how to use tool calling, multi agents, etc. and some excitement about MCPs
• Working experience with Machine Learning (PyTorch, scikit-learn), training/deploying models with proprietary or Open Source models

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: React / Vite / Next.js
• Backend: Node / Nest.js / Express.js
• API: REST / Graphql
• AI: OpenAI / Anthropic / different AI platforms, Langfuse
• Database: Postgres
• Data Platforms: Salesforce, Airbyte, Dagster, Parabola, DBT
• Infrastructure: AWS
• Dev AI assistants: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code

Working at Nava

As a remote-first company, Nava is committed to building a dynamic and inclusive culture where you have the autonomy to thrive. You’ll be supported by cutting-edge technology, a collaborative team, and a shared mission to revolutionize healthcare.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Medical insurance, including a $0 premium HDHP plan for individuals, Dental, Vision, Telehealth and Virtual Primary Care Visits, OneMedical membership, Wellhub, and a $50 monthly benefit to improve your mental or physical health.
• Financial Support: Stock options, 401(k) with a $2,000 match, FSA, HSA, and access to Origin Financial.
• Work-Life: Flexible PTO, 12 weeks of paid parental leave with 2 weeks of transition time, $50 monthly connectivity reimbursement, and company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance, with additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life, AD&D, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness coverage.
• Professional Support: $1,000 home office setup stipend and access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Diversity & Inclusion

Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We believe that solving America's healthcare problem requires leveraging America's greatest strength: our diversity. Healthcare affects everyone – and a team that includes people from all backgrounds and walks of life will be more effective at driving change than a homogeneous one. We are excited to build that kind of team at Nava.

Key skills/competency

• Generative AI
• Full-stack development
• Python programming
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini)
• API integration
• Intelligent search
• Machine Learning (PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• AWS infrastructure
• Cross-functional collaboration