We help the world run better

Our company culture 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!

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria is technology-focused and plays key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1060 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions towards life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products. For its 21-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

SAP is a recognized leader in the cloud space with its Business Technology Platform running solutions for the largest companies across all businesses. In SAP, we are strongly committed to and very passionate about the success of our customers and the efficient development and operations of the solutions we provide. The Cloud Foundry environment enables customers to develop new business applications and business services, supporting multiple runtimes, programming languages, libraries, and services.

The Role

If you are interested in cloud development and want to have impact, this is the job for you. We are looking for Software Architect to join our Cloud Foundry Runtime team. As such you will be working with multiple teams in the organization to help solve complex design and architecture issues in the area of container management of cf applications, Cloud Foundry buildpacks, scalability and other projects that will arise.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and communicating vision for technical evolution of Cloud Foundry components in scope
• Ensure architectural integrity of solutions
• Lead or participate in research and Proof of Concept activities
• Deliver quality technical/technology recommendations, proposals, and documentations
• Keep track of new advances in internal technology areas and propose improvements
• Mentor and inspire Scrum teams
• Influence to improve E2E development, testing and operational excellence practices
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (internal & external) and share / sell the solution that is being proposed
• Contribute with task, ideas and estimates to planning process
• Responsible to produce technical designs and communicate them to development team and enable efficient build of the solutions
• Participate in reviews of software engineers’ code to deliver high quality solutions
• Provide technical training within the team to ensure continuous knowledge growth

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience as Software Architect or Senior Software Engineer
• Experience with and an appreciation of the benefits of software engineering practices and design such as: coding standards, agile (scrum) methodologies and test-driven development
• Knowledge in Microservices & SaaS architecture, Web Services/SOA Connectivity
• Proficient in Java (Client-side, Server-side, Security APIs, Web development, Spring/MVC/Spring Boot) or JavaScript and Node.js as well as other software technologies including Rest/JSON, SOAP/XML, Oracle, Postgres, Single Sign-On (SSO), HTML5, Performance Tuning/Profiling, Testing frameworks
• Excellent communication, negotiations, presentation, organizational, interpersonal, programming, troubleshooting, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-moving and challenging environment

The Following Skills Will Be Considered An Advantage

• Experience in designing solutions for high performance, scalability and reliability
• Knowledge/experience in working and fine-tuning of Tomcat, TomEE
• Knowledge/experience in development with one or more of Go, Ruby, Python programing languages
• Knowledge/experience in build engineering, code quality and continuous delivery using technologies like K8S, OpenShift, Docker, Gradle, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgre, Oracle, etc.

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you’re searching for a company that’s dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment – apply now. You will also:

• Work with present day technologies like Cloud Foundry, K8s, Gardener, Kafka, etc.
• Be able to help customers solve real business problems and have impact
• Work in a cross-functional team of talented and motivated colleagues, following agile methodologies and industry’s best practices
• Have fun working on enterprise ready cloud platform bringing millions in revenue

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

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.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 386093 | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.