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Senior Application Engineer — Buying Agents

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2 days ago
São Leopoldo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and technical direction for intelligent, agent-driven procurement systems.
  • Build and standardize agent patterns for planning, tool use, failure recovery, and human handoff.
  • Manage shared services for policy grounding, routing, orchestration, memory, and governed handoff.
  • Set AI engineering practices for safety, evaluation, prompt/model drift monitoring, reliability, and token economics.
  • Own integration architecture, APIs, event contracts, and cross-team architectural alignment.
  • Frame ambiguous problems, challenge requirements, and drive technical decisions to closure.
  • Mentor senior developers and develop onboarding and capability curricula for agentic and AI-assisted development.
  • Remain hands-on by implementing the most technically challenging parts of the architecture.

Requirements

  • Meaningful hands-on experience creating and managing production AI agents capable of planning, tool use, and failure recovery.
  • Experience designing RAG pipelines involving embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, vector stores, and protocols such as MCP for agent and tool interaction.
  • Experience with enterprise AI guardrails, prompt-injection defense, PII handling, audit trails, human-in-the-loop workflows, golden-set evaluations, LLM-as-judge evaluation, regression harnesses, model routing, caching, and cost-per-task budgeting.
  • Deep architectural experience with Java and Spring Boot, including reactive programming with WebFlux and Project Reactor for streaming.
  • Experience with Domain-Driven Design and making cross-cutting architectural decisions.
  • Experience with Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and RabbitMQ, plus the ability to define integration architecture and contracts.
  • Ability to decompose ambiguous problems, establish standards through ADRs and OpenAPI specifications, and grow senior engineers.
  • Strong plus: experience with SAP BTP, CAP, AI Core, HANA Cloud Vector Engine, Integration Suite, S/4HANA Clean Core, procurement, ERP, or another enterprise domain.

Benefits

  • Work in a global development network with colleagues across Brazil, Germany, and India.
  • Contribute to standards and broaden technical impact across teams and regions.
  • SAP offers inclusion, health and well-being support, flexible working models, and accessibility accommodations.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaJavaRabbitMQSAP Cloud PlatformSpring BootTerraform
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About SAP

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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