Senior Developer

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. 

Our team mission, as one of five teams in our Inventory Tribe, is to deliver a unified, consistent filtering and search experience for users and services across SAP LeanIX.

As a Backend Engineer, you are not only an individual contributor, but also support your team with a strong customer-centric mindset and a drive to take on ownership over product capabilities and technical components. Two-week sprints based on Scrum help our team to self-organise and continuously improve the way we work

Location: Bonn, Berlin, Dresden, Walldorf, Munich

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ?

• Empowering Work Environment: We've invested heavily in creating an environment that fosters growth and provides open access to leadership, transparent communication, and opportunities for personal development.
• Complex Engineering Challenges: We're tackling hard engineering problems at a large scale, requiring creativity and strong engineering expertise.
• Empowered Product Teams: You're not just executing a roadmap; you're solving real problems. We value and reward outcomes, not just output.
• Ownership and Autonomy: We build it, we run it! We ensure our customers can rely on our features. This means we value resilience, automation, and proactive problem-solving.
• Continuous Improvement: We prioritize ongoing learning, collaboration, and sharing knowledge. We strive to continuously improve our products by validating and measuring user interactions.
• Work-Life Balance: We believe a well-rested and well-rounded individual makes the best engineer. We support remote or on-site work and offer flexible working hours to adapt your job to your life.

WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?

• Implementation of scalable and secure backend services in Kotlin/Java
• Design and implementation of state-of-the-art search related data structures and algorithms
• Design and implementation of state-of-the-art GraphQL APIs
• Taking over ownership and driving topics that you are passionate about and that contribute to our product vision
• Passionate colleagues who are looking forward to share knowledge (see our blog!) and learn from you
• Shape the way we work. You know a technology that will improve our daily work or our product? Bring it on!

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Backend JVM microservices with latest Kotlin
• Frontends built with latest Angular
• Infrastructure based on Azure ecosystem
• Kubernetes and Docker
• API technologies with GraphQL
• Databases and Search with SAP HANA Cloud, Redis, PostgreSQL
• Event-driven architecture
• Modern CI/CD toolchains with Github Actions, Feature Toggling
• Monitoring and Alerting with Azure, Instana
• Product Usage Tracking with Amplitude, Azure Log Analytics
• And many other tools

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You should apply if you are someone who likes to:

• Collaborate with Product Management & UI/UX teams as part of a Product team.
• Be guided by engineering values: they aren’t just some pretty word on a blog post. We live by them and challenge ourselves with them.
• Share knowledge and make people around him/her grow through active mentorship, pair programming, code reviews or knowledge sharing sessions.
• Be in the driver seat by being proactive and taking ownership.
• Frequently get out of its comfort zone: we grow at a fast pace and evolve frequently.
• Do it right the first time: we believe quality iterative development brings velocity, not the other way around. We live by the value to produce outcome and not output.

Additionally:

• Standard role: 2+ years , Senior role: 4+ years of working experience.
• Proficiency in working with Kotlin and Java.
• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA Cloud, especially in writing and optimizing SQL queries for performance and search
• Familiarity with query profiling, indexing strategies, and performance diagnostics in SAP HANA Cloud
• Experience with building and running scalable backend services is advantageous.
• Practical experience in development and deployment of ML, AI based features is a plus
• Familiarity with modern tools and practices.
• Open communication style, strong spoken and written communication skills in English
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in one of our engineering offices at least 20% of your time. Kindly note: We are only accepting applications from candidates based in Germany.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
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Requisition ID: 430009  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid