Senior Backend Developer (m/w/d)

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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. 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.

SAP Signavio's culture, strongly influenced by its startup origin, is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

Summary

The Foundation and Intelligent Transformation group is responsible for SAP Signavio Collaboration Hub, SAP Signavio Transformation Manager, and various central services, including Collaboration Services. We focus on providing intuitive features to enhance core user interactions across the Suite. Additionally, we manage unified access across the entire Suite, ensuring seamless and secure user access.

What You'll do

• Be part of a talented team, embracing agile principles and values.
• Lead the harmonization of access control mechanisms across multiple integrated products, ensuring a consistent and secure user experience.
• Build backend foundations for future AI with clean APIs, solid data models, and strong team collaboration.
• Drive product development from ideation to data-driven improvements.
• Bootstrap, develop, maintain and operate both new micro services and existing monolithic applications, following either traditional server-based or serverless principles.
• Partner with other teams and individuals across the organization to tackle intricate technical & business challenges.
• Uphold stringent security guidelines, safeguarding our operations and data.
• Maintain an outcome-focused mindset, challenge ideas and push boundaries.
• Engage in open communication and feedback; contribute proactively to product and company growth.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software developer experience, following agile methodologies.
• Experience with access management with a strong security focus, preferably within enterprise-scale or multi-tenant environments.
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) technologies and frameworks (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• Passion for fast iterations, test-driven development, pair programming and pragmatic development approaches.
• Curiosity and proactivity about using AI tools to boost developer experience and productivity.
• Solid experience in backend development, deep knowledge of Java and Kotlin and exposure to functional programming.
• Experience utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and associated cloud technologies (AWS, GCP or MS Azure).
• Solid hands-on experience with relational databases, ideally MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience in developing microservices, and understanding of message- and event-driven architectures and distributed systems patterns.
• Good cross-team communication and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Ability to analyze complex systems and drive architectural decisions that span multiple products.
• Ability to balance pragmatism and engineering excellence.
• Experience managing high-volume or high-risk projects involving multiple stakeholder groups, creating clear project plans with milestones and timelines.

Meet the team

Building on the intelligent enterprise strategy, SAP Signavio set out to support and accompany SAP customers in navigating through their digital transformation by helping them understand and improve their business processes.

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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