SAP

Development Manager

SAP$388K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 7+ years experience in related roles (5+ with Master's).
  • 4+ years with microservice architecture and Java frameworks (Spring MVC, Spring Boot).
  • Expertise in SAP HANA, Business Technology Platform, and XSA.
  • Familiarity with programming languages (Node JS, Python) and event streaming tools (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
  • Proven leadership and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Set clear goals and inspire team members.
  • Continuously improve engineering processes and team performance.
  • Support team development and evaluate achievement fairly.
  • Lead technical decisions on product implementation.
  • Ensure product supportability and quality through monitoring and feedback.
  • Drive adherence to service quality metrics and support roles.

Benefits

  • Participation in Employee Referral Program.
  • Supportive work environment fostering development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 453153
Work Area: Software-Development Operations
Expected Travel: 0%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T4PM-2
Additional Locations:


Original Posting Date: 05/04/2026

Job Title: Development Manager

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Work Model: Full in Office

Purpose and Objective:

SAP Labs, LLC seeks a Development Manager at our Palo Alto, CA location to set clear goals with team members, inspire, and support them towards accomplishing goals and evaluate goal achievement in a fair and understandable way.

Expectations and Tasks:

Set up and constantly improve a high performing engineering organization with high trust on all levels of roles and collaboration, striving for best-in class engineering processes. Responsible for supporting the success of direct reports and other employees within the larger team, by helping to identify development opportunities and supporting team members to achieve their goals. Perform minimal hands-on technical tasks and responsibilities in addition to team management, coaching, and development. Ensure product requirements, as well as non-functional requirements are built, tested, and maintained. Own technical leadership and decide on how the product is implemented. Ensure supportability of the product e.g. telemetry, performance, health check monitoring and customer feedback channels. Ensure service quality is continuously driven via e.g. root cause analysis and preventive actions. Drive adherence to support metrics and ensures 24/7 support such as Manager on Duty or Developer on Duty role.

Education and Occupational Experience:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:

Experience must include four (4) years involving each of the following:

  • Microservice Architecture;


  • Java Frameworks including Spring MVC and Spring Boot;

  • SAP HANA Columnar Database Cloud;

  • SAP Business Technology Platform and XSA;

  • SAP Cloud Application Programming Model;

  • SAP Products including Internet of Things and Data Intelligence Cloud;

  • Programming Languages including Node JS and Python;

  • Event Streaming including Kafka and RabbitMQ;

  • Team Leadership or Presentation Skills; and

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  • Incident Solving Process and Customer Escalations.


Experience must include two (2) years involving each of the following:

  • Temporal IO; and

  • SAP Business Technology Platform Kyma.


Travel: N/A.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.

Internal use only: reference code lhrs4262

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Additional Locations:

Requisition ID: 453153

Posted Date: Jul 1, 2026

Work Area: Software-Development Operations

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Expected Travel: 0%

Location:

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