Backend Engineer (Infrastructure & DevOps) at SAP Fioneer

Innovation is and will always be the core of SAP Fioneer, and it is the promise of why we were spun out of SAP: agility, innovation, and delivery.

SAP Fioneer builds on a heritage of outstanding technology and a deep understanding of corporate and consumer demands. At the heart of it all it is simple: We bring financial services to the next level with innovative software solutions and platforms.

We are helping companies in the financial services industry to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency through digital business innovation, cloud technology, and solutions that cover banking and insurance processes end-to-end.

A global company, with rapid growth, innovative people, and a lean organization makes SAP Fioneer a place where you accelerate your future!

Our teams consist of industry experts, product owners, designers, and software engineers focused on frontend, backend, or platform and operations. This is a great opportunity to get next-level experience in a mature cloud-native team on challenging, business-relevant projects, including work at the forefront of GenAI and agentic systems.

As a team, we cherish flexibility and open communication. Focusing on work-life balance and enjoying the journey is a must. Taking responsibility and working at your own pace is something that we greatly appreciate.

About You

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with a focus on infrastructure and DevOps to join one of our scrum teams, working with technologies like Spring Boot, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure. You will own services end to end — from API design to the pipeline that ships them and the infrastructure they run on — and actively shape the platform.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, and a degree in Computer Science (or equivalent education).
• Very good knowledge of Spring Boot and Kotlin, building production-grade services and RESTful APIs.
• Experienced with PostgreSQL; schema design, migrations, query optimization, and performance.
• Hands-on experience running services in the cloud, ideally Azure, on Kubernetes (AKS) with Helm.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and configuration management.
• Use and understand AI coding agents, like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, while owning code quality.
• Comfortable with observability and operations; metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
• Treat testing as a regular part of the work; unit, integration, and e2e.
• Actively use linters and formatters and write clean code readable to both developers and machines.
• Strong CI/CD skills; own changes through the pipeline to production, including build, release, and rollback.
• Solution-oriented person with structured working mode.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have:

• Frontend experience with TypeScript and React (Redux, micro frontends, module federation) — good to have, not required.
• Knowledge of UI5 Web Components and component-based design systems (e.g., SAP Fiori).
• Experience with a service mesh (Istio) or Kubernetes-based platforms such as Kyma.
• Exposure to platform security, secrets management, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs / GenAI into applications — e.g., Spring AI, Azure OpenAI, or building agentic flows and MCP servers.
• A strong interest in modern technologies and tools and enjoy pushing the platform forward.