Developer, SAP Concur

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you Build

Join us in Bangalore as a Developer (Java) and help shape the future of SAP Concur—SAP’s industry‑leading Travel & Expense SaaS platform used globally.
You’ll build high‑impact, enterprise‑grade systems at massive scale while working closely with product, design,
and engineering teams in an agile, innovative environment.

• Lead the evolution of the Concur Audit System, enhancing a platform that processes millions of transactions daily across thousands of customers by driving architectural improvements, performance tuning, and high‑scale reliability.
• Provide technical leadership for modernizing backend and batch‑processing pipelines, including re‑architecting legacy flows and adopting workflow orchestration tools where appropriate.
Why it matters: Scalable, resilient workflows ensure consistent, reliable processing for mission‑critical customer operations.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable micro-services on SAP’s multi‑cloud architecture using Java, Spring, and modern cloud technologies.
Why it matters: These services power core SAP Concur functionality used by millions of global users.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, observability, and diagnostics for both real‑time and batch workloads, making systems easier to troubleshoot and more resilient to failures.
Why it matters: Better insights reduce incidents, accelerate root‑cause analysis, and improve customer trust.
• Shape best practices for high‑scale SaaS systems, influencing architecture, performance, security, and DevOps standards across the team.
Why it matters: Strong engineering foundations enable consistent, high‑quality delivery across global teams.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation and developer‑productivity tooling, accelerating delivery cycles and improving operational efficiency.
Why it matters: Developers move faster, ship safer, and reduce manual effort.
• Lead incident triage and root‑cause investigations for production issues, ensuring continuous improvement and long‑term system reliability.
Why it matters: Your work ensures a stable experience for millions of end users.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams—including product management, design, and global engineering—to deliver high‑impact platform capabilities.
Why it matters: Cross‑team alignment drives solutions that work end‑to‑end at enterprise scale.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical initiatives, fostering a high‑ownership culture rooted in craftsmanship, performance, and accountability.
Why it matters: Strong technical leadership elevates the entire engineering organization.

What you Bring

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of expertise in Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security), with experience building large‑scale SaaS or cloud applications.
• Deep knowledge of REST API and OData API design for secure, well‑structured, and scalable service interfaces.
• Proficiency with AWS services (S3, SimpleQueue, DB) and comfort working in multi‑cloud environments.
• Strong SQL capabilities and experience optimizing large‑scale database solutions; familiarity with Flyway is a plus.
• Excellent debugging and performance tuning skills, including use of profilers, heap/thread dumps, and JVM/GC optimization.
• Experience developing and operating complex backend and batch‑processing systems at scale.
• Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate processes, and drive DevOps adoption across teams.
• Experience with containerized deployments and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with full‑stack development (React, Angular, or similar) is a plus.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with AI pair programming tools, including deep usage of GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Working knowledge of Agentic AI concepts and protocols (Model Context Protocol, Agent‑to‑Agent Communication Protocols).
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues in high‑traffic, mission‑critical environments.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and customer‑facing skills.
• A high‑ownership mindset—taking initiative, setting direction, challenging the status quo, and consistently driving impactful outcomes.
• Commitment to maintaining in‑office presence to support efficient team collaboration and shared problem‑solving.

Where you Belong

Join a high‑ownership engineering culture that values craftsmanship, reliability, and building systems at massive scale.
Work in a collaborative, globally distributed environment that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and thoughtful adoption of AI‑assisted development.

• Contribute to a SaaS platform used by 40+ million users, backed by a global SAP Concur team focused on performance, stability, and customer impact.
• Grow your career inside SAP Labs India—an environment offering strong internal mobility, international collaboration, and opportunities to solve meaningful problems.
  
  

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 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.

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AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 445466 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid