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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.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Developer to join our team and help shape the future of Talent Management technology. This is a high-impact role requiring deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and a track record of delivering scalable, production-ready systems. You should be confident making decisions, mentoring peers, and driving engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Responsible for development focusing on design, coding, testing, quality assurance of complex product features in a development team.
• Resolves complex issues within own area of expertise and supports others in resolving issues.
• Shows initiative and drives topics to resolution in a high level of quality, speed, reliability and efficiency.
• Works closely together with others and shares expertise to ensure product success.
• Constantly improves own work methods to gain state-of-the-art agile software engineering skills.
• Enhances skills beyond own core functional focus and works on other tasks for the benefit of the team.
• Has advanced overall product and technical knowledge and shares expertise within and across team and organization.
• Has advanced knowledge of development processes and product standards.
• Lead the design and development of scalable full-stack solutions
• Guide architecture discussions and make key technical decisions
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to define requirements and deliver robust features
• Ensure code quality through reviews, testing, and mentoring junior developers
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, security, and reliability

If acting as Scrum Master in the LEAN context, please consider the Scrum Masters

Responsibilities:

• The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
• Scrum Master is a 'servant-leader' for the Product Owner and the Development Team
• Facilitates Scrum Events on request or as required
• Coaches the Development Team in self-organization
• Removes impediments to the Development Team's progress
• Education and Occupational Experience

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and four (4) years of experience.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience

Core Backend Expertise

• Extensive experience in Java/J2EE ecosystem, including Spring, Hibernate, JSP, and Servlets
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, ODATA, SOAP, and microservices-based architectures
• Strong proficiency in PL/SQL, relational databases (MS SQL Server, HANA), and RDBMS optimization

Front-End Development

• Advanced skills in modern front-end technologies: React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, AJAX, and UI5
• Ability to lead UI design discussions and enforce consistency across user interfaces

Architecture & Design

• Strong command of object-oriented programming, system design (OOAD), and design patterns
• Experience with UML modeling, system decomposition, and scalable solution architecture
• Proven ability to make architectural decisions and evaluate trade-offs in complex systems

Search & Integration Technologies

• Hands-on experience with enterprise search and caching tools: Apache Solr, Elastic Search, and Ehcache
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines and data warehousing concepts using SSIS and OLAP cubes

Testing & Quality

• Expertise in test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, and mocking with JUnit
• Ability to design and maintain automated test suites across the SDLC
• Experience conducting performance testing using LoadRunner and JMeter, with a focus on bottleneck analysis
• Solid understanding of QA and staging environments, test isolation, and deployment strategies
• Hands-on experience with Splunk for log analysis, monitoring, and proactive issue detection in QA and staging environments

DevOps & Tooling

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and infrastructure automation
• Deep understanding of Chef- creating cookbooks, managing Chef servers
• Skilled in using CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Git) for automated builds and deployments
• Familiar with containerization, deployment pipelines, and continuous integration strategies
• Experience with IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ and runtime environments such as Tomcat and JVM-based stacks
• Comfortable managing Linux-based systems

System & Environment Management

• Proficient across Linux and Windows development environments
• Deep debugging skills and a performance-first mindset when tackling production issues

Innovation & Collaboration

• Proficient in leveraging GitHub Copilot and similar AI development tools to enhance productivity, enforce coding standards, and streamline repetitive tasks.
• Able to evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, maintainability, and performance. Guides junior developers on responsible use of AI in the SDLC
• Ability to mentor junior developers, perform code reviews, and enforce best practices
• Strong communication skills and experience working with globally distributed Agile teams

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 world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 141700 - 240900(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 429947 | Work Area:Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Nearest Major Market: San Francisco

Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland

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