Developer Associate

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.

What you'll do:

The SAP HANA Database and Analytics core engine organization is looking for a junior developer to join our query engine team. In this role, you will be developing features, and maintaining various HANA database components. These components include HANA Analytic Advisor, HANA Analytics engine, and associated Business Intelligence components and microservices.

At SAP, all members of the engineering team, including management are hands-on and close to the code. If you think you can thrive in such an environment, and you have the necessary knowledge and drive please do not hesitate to apply. As a junior developer on the HANA Database & Analytics team, the candidate is expected to:

• Be motivated and take initiative.
• Communicate and work with a senior developer.
• Contribute to feature elaboration, task break-down and estimation.
• Collaborate in a team environment that extends to colleagues in remote locations and from various lines of business within the company.
• Debug, troubleshoot and communicate with customers about their issues with their data models, and queries.
• Continually enhance existing skills and seek new areas for personal development.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Work at Europe's largest software company and contribute to a large code base.
• Learn and work independently.
• Embrace lean and agile software development principles.

What you bring:

• Must have university a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or electrical engineering. Other engineering degrees along with relevant experience may be considered.
• Must have a good GPA and/or prior hands-on development experience in object-oriented projects.
• Courses or project experience in relational database or data science is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience with more recent C++ standards such as C++17 is highly desirable.
• Knowledge or experience developing multi-threaded applications is desirable.
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol, and TCP/IP networking is required, or willingness to learn.
• Excellent verbal, written, analytical and communication skill is required.

Meet your team:

We are a small team of core HANA database developers based in Vancouver. The projects span several topics including HANA Multi-Dimensional Service (which is HANA OLAP or analytics engine), document store (which is a NoSQL JSON document store database), knowledge graph database development, and HANA Advisor development (which is part of AI initiative). We embrace a hybrid work model that enables developers to excel at what they are passionate about, and at the same time contribute to the business goals of SAP HANA database organization. The main metrics for measuring developers' performance in our team are your output, your team play, your creativity and your problem-solving. Our main development language is C++ although we do use Python and occasionally Go.

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 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.

SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 51000 - 111800 CAD CAD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount, and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: www.SAPNorthAmericaBenefits.com.

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

Requisition ID: 414008 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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