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.

Job Title: Senior Developer / Development Expert

Location: Bangalore (Devanahalli Campus)

What You'll Do

Be part of the engineering team located in Bangalore and work in a highly motivated Scrum team. Your responsibility will be to cover all stages and tasks within the entire software development cycle:

• You work as a Senior Java developer in an agile development team according to the agile Scrum methodology.
• You develop microservices based components that will be deployed on the cloud thru SAP cloud Platform. We have experienced colleagues in our team to support you in acquiring the knowledge you need to build up.
• You will focus on cloud qualities ("non-functional requirements" e. g. product standards like security, reliability, scalability, supportability, performance, health check monitoring) building large-scale, highly distributed and fault-tolerant services and processes.
• You take over full end2end responsibility for design, implementation, quality assurance, testing, maintenance, DevOps and support.
• You have a strong customer focus and cloud mindset ("You build it, you run it.").You adhere to Engineering processes & SLAs, and you contribute to second level cloud customer support together with other locations.
• You cooperate closely with colleagues across functions in your team and with other development teams and will also mentor young talent and guide them in development.
• You constructively contribute to change management, engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Experience building generative AI applications backed by advanced prompting & RAG technologies and agentic frameworks.
• Savvy with AI assisted code assist tools
• Work in a forward deployed engineering model for innovation projects
• High quality, service and customer-oriented working attitude.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred. Experience level 8+ years with relevant software Development space (Enterprise Application Suites).
• Excellent programming skills (both application and technology), advanced knowledge and experience in in Java backend development. Expertise in Web Services (REST, oDATA) , JPA, JDBC
• Very good understanding of cloud qualities ("non-functional requirements"), e.g. reliability, scalability, supportability, monitoring, and product standards like security.
• Good working knowledge of Spring, Spring-Boot, REST, ORM frameworks like Hibernate
• OOAD, algorithms, data structures, design patterns. RDBMS concepts and Solid foundation with relational database and SQL. OS and runtime experience (Unix, Windows, JVM, Web servers, Servlet Containers).

• DevOps mindset – inherent sense of ownership through the development and deployment lifecycle

• 1 to 3 years of working experience as software developer, preferrable in AI focused cloud application development with Strong skills in building generative AI & advanced prompting

• Experience with open-source agentic frameworks.

• High self-motivation and execution skills: result-driven, ability and willingness to quickly take responsibility and to execute with high quality

• You have a "can-do" attitude and see possibilities where others see challenges
• Strong social skills and team player – consensus building and openness to new ideas and intercultural co-operation. Excellent analytical and root cause analysis /problem solving skills.

Meet Your Team

SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) empowers businesses to connect with their employees and inspire purpose-driven performance. Our mission is to help every customer deliver the employee experiences people truly want. You'll join a seasoned team of cloud-native Java developers and data scientists at SuccessFactors, working at the forefront of innovation to build next-generation generative AI-powered applications.

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.

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Requisition ID: | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.