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Senior Backend Developer (m/w/d)

Germanyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Nov 2025

About the role

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.

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

Being 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.

An outcome-focused mindset, unafraid to challenge ideas and push boundaries.

As a valued member of our collaborative and dynamic team, you understand the significance of open communication and feedback. Your proactive engagement, constructive insights, and unwavering commitment to self-improvement, product enhancement, and company growth are highly valued and recognized.

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 in identity and access management (IAM) technologies and frameworks (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML).

Passionate about fast iterations, test-driven development, pair programming and pragmatic development approaches.

Curious and proactive about using AI tools to boost developer experience, productivity, and how we build software.

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 (microservice architecture), solid understanding of message- and event-driven architectures and distributed systems patterns.