PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

The SAP Innovation Center Network is a strategic innovation entity within SAP, combining software engineering excellence with thought leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. Across various focus clusters and by building on strong teams, we pioneer game-changing solutions in close collaboration with startups, customers & partners in industry and research as well as with other SAP units. To ensure a successful go-to-market, we follow an end-to-end responsibility approach. By exploring unconventional ideas and developing inspiring proofs of concept, we push the state of the art in computer science and its applied fields to provide SAP with foresight into future trends.

Machine Learning enables computers to learn from large amounts of data without being explicitly programmed. The world's most relevant enterprise data is part of SAP's system and business network. SAP aspires to make all its enterprise solutions intelligent and help customers to leverage their data. As Senior Backend Developer for Machine Learning Platform, you will work with a team of experienced researchers and data scientists taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers and product units and providing smart services across and beyond the SAP portfolio. You will have the chance to work with the richest data sets available in the world addressing real-world problems.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

As part of the SAP Innovation Center Network Machine Learning team, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including researchers, designer, developers, and architects with a single goal of building best machine learning pipelines for a variety of use cases spanning commerce, financial markets, and procurement. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver machine learning solutions. Your tasks include:

• As a Full-stack developer you will be responsible to design and implement complex UI features using JavaScript, HTML5, SAPUI5. and mobile technologies
• Experience in hands-on software development - programming and Scripting Languages
• Ability to capture customer requirements and translate them into software specifications
• Closely work with customers, partners and internal teams to enhance the solution and systems, troubleshooting data issues etc.
• Build robust and scalable solution bringing in some of the industry’s software engineering best practices
• Work with UX designer, cross functional teams and collaborate with other teams to develop scalable and robust solutions Iteratively test, refine and improve the models

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

• BS or MS in Computer science with experience in developing frontend applications with 0-2 years of experience
• Hands-on skills in web app development with expert level knowledge of CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, SAPUI5 and JSON/XML/OData manipulation
• Familiar with one or more machine learning or statistical modeling tools
• Experience with Scripting and machine learning a plus
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving ability
• An ideal candidate you will demonstrate a proven track record of enterprise-grade product releases preferably as cloud-based solutions.
• Can demonstrate skills to personal projects, GitHub repository, and open source contributions.
• Experience creating mockups with Sketch or Illustrator.
• NodeJS, Python, Java programming experience.
• Experience working with Redis, Mongo DB
• Knowledge in Bootstrap, Foundation Frameworks, SAPUI5, jQuery, AngularJS, React,
• Manipulating SVG with D3, Raphael or ChartJS
• Must be able to work onsite in Palo Alto, CA and local candidates are preferred

At SAP, we're not just shaping the future, we're creating it with a collaborative spirit, a drive for high performance, and a commitment to continuous learning. SAP's purpose is to help the world run better and improve people's lives with sustainability at the core. Our integrated applications connect all parts of a business into an intelligent suite on a fully digital platform. With the largest cloud portfolio on the market, world-class benefits, and recognition for your individual contributions, we're here to empower you to bring out your best.