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Application Engineer — Buying Agents

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2 days ago
São Leopoldo, BrazilMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement production buying agents with reasoning, tool use, failure recovery, and output validation.
  • Build and own core buying flows and shared services for policy enforcement, request routing, orchestration, and human handoff.
  • Integrate large language models into deployed cloud services using prompt engineering, structured output, function calling, RAG, and agent/tool interaction protocols.
  • Develop cloud-native microservices in Java and Spring Boot with security, observability, testing, and continuous delivery.
  • Create evaluations, guardrails, tests, output validation, prompt-injection defenses, PII handling, audit trails, and secure-by-design practices.
  • Collaborate with peers, review code, support junior developers, and resolve task-level ambiguity autonomously.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs into production services and applying prompt engineering and agent patterns.
  • Backend experience with Java and Spring Boot, REST API design, Spring Security, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and microservices resilience patterns.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, or an equivalent PaaS.
  • SQL fluency, relational database design, PostgreSQL or an equivalent database, and event-driven processing patterns.
  • Experience with testing, security-by-design practices including OWASP Top 10, Git and pull-request workflows, and specification-driven or AI-assisted development.
  • For full-stack profiles, TypeScript experience with React, Angular, or Vue and accessibility knowledge including WCAG 2.1 AA.
  • RAG and vector-store experience with pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or an equivalent is preferred.
  • SAP BTP, CAP, HANA Cloud, SAPUI5, Fiori, procurement, ERP, or other enterprise-domain experience is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models and SAP’s inclusion, health, and well-being culture.
  • International collaboration with teams across Brazil, Germany, and India.
  • Coaching, agile practices, and access to a global network of engineers and architects.
  • The role is based on SAP’s Brazil engineering squad and is a permanent position unless otherwise specified by SAP.

Tech Stack

AngularAWSAzureDockerGitGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLReactSAP Cloud PlatformSpring BootSQLTypeScriptVue.js
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10,000+ employees

SAP builds enterprise application software and cloud services for finance, procurement, supply chain, human resources, and analytics, sold through subscriptions, licenses, and support. Its portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is a public company listed on the NYSE and Frankfurt (ETR) and serves enterprises and public-sector organizations worldwide.

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