Senior Backend Engineer

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Summary & Role Information 

Our connectivity capabilities provide services to enable boundaryless data flow within SAP Signavio Suite, SAP in general and external services. For instance, the connectivity services cover use cases such as  

• content distribution services for delivering content to SAP Signavio tenants,  

• integration with SAP internal content production tools, 

• integration between SAP Signavio and SAP application lifecycle management tools (SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager), or 

• data exchange with SAP and non-SAP applications interacting with SAP Signavio Suite. 

In this role you will be working in a cross-functional team who values trust, respect and diversity.  

Being part of a motivated team with flat hierarchies you know the importance of communication and feedback. You are appreciated for your engagement, your constructive input and your relentless drive to improve yourself, the product and the company. 
We are looking for people who share our passion for creating products that people love to use. To thrive in this role you are someone who appreciates close collaboration, open communication, and feedback. 

What you’ll do: 

• Apply and adhere to good software engineering practices (e.g. DRY principles, automated tests, pair programming, code reviews) and especially to SAP  Signavio’s internal engineering and development guidelines 

• Contribute to process governance code base whilst collaborating with SAP Signavio developers  

• Provide support and consult as needed to other developers within the development team encouraging good practice agile development techniques  

• Gain a good understanding of each user story and the expected outcome, asking for further detail from the Product Owner as required  

• Active involvement in planning sessions to breakdown the user story into sub-tasks  

• Active involvement in backlog refinement when needed  

• Attend daily stand ups and provide meaningful and relevant updates on development and any impediments that are impacting progress  

• Attend sprint review sessions to demo new/updated features that have been developed and provide detail on any issues that impacted completion  

• Attend sprint retrospectives and raise learnings with the team and any actions that need to be taken within the next sprint  

• Contribute towards ownership of the team’s delivery and provide regular updates on progress against commitment, and any impediments blocking development  

• Work collaboratively with the Product Owner and Team Arichtect to reach agreement on the technical commitments  

• Provide support for releases including the production of release notes  

• Work existing applications as well as the inception of new microservices 

• Collaborate and work on solving challenging technical and business problems 

• Follow Agile principles and values 

What you’ll bring: 

• Passion about crafting clean and well tested code 

• 5+ years of experience in developing Cloud Native applications with excellent programming skills in Java, Node.JS, and SAP UI5. 

• Experience working in cross-functional teams relying on Agile methodologies 

• Enjoy pair programming or are keen on trying it out 

• In-depth knowledge of Object-oriented programming in general and a language such as Java  

• It would be a bonus if you have experience with other programming paradigms such as functional programming or reactive programming 

• Demonstrated experience on safely and efficiently refactor larger pieces of code 

• Hands-on experience with NoSQL or SQL databases. It would be even better if you have experience in DB related optimizations 

• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and related cloud technologies is a plus 

• Strong team player & communicator  

• University degree (Bachelor or Master) in Computer Science, Natural Science, Business Engineering, or a related discipline (nice to have)  

• Fluent  English language skills are mandatory 

Meet your 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.  

The Business Modeling and Workflow (BM&W) group is one of five groups in the engineering department of the SAP Signavio unit. We value consistency, modularity & re-usability, as well as simplicity. We strive for a coherent user experience across the entire product suite and an effective & efficient cross-product development experience. To this effect, our teams deliver SAP Signavio core products such as the SAP Signavio Process Manager or SAP Signavio Governance components.  

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Requisition ID: 386682  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 20%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid