Junior Application Engineer (AI & Backend)

What you bring

You have foundational programming skills in any programming language and a genuine curiosity about how modern applications and AI-enabled solutions work. A basic understanding of APIs and software development practices, together with awareness of AI/LLM concepts such as prompt engineering and AI-assisted engineering, is expected. Familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD practices, cloud fundamentals, and basic AI evaluation techniques is a plus. You’re open to learning ABAP and working with complex enterprise backend applications and their business logic. Familiarity with testing, debugging, logging, and structured development workflows will help you contribute from the start.

What you’ll build

You'll contribute to both backend and AI-enabled application development through coding, testing, and debugging. On the backend side, you'll learn and work with ABAP-based applications, business logic, APIs, and interfaces that provide the foundation for new capabilities. On the AI side, LLM integration tasks, prompt testing, and AI output validation are part of the regular work. You'll help prepare evaluation datasets and participate in benchmarking workflows. System logs, metrics, and application behavior are things you'll monitor to spot issues and support observability improvements. CI/CD pipelines, deployment support, and basic automation workflows are areas where you'll contribute, along with maintaining clear documentation.

Where you belong

You'll work in a collaborative, global engineering environment with access to mentorship and structured learning. Knowledge sharing and honest technical feedback are part of how this team operates. You'll gain hands-on exposure to both enterprise backend systems and AI-enabled applications, building experience in ABAP and AI technologies as part of the same application landscape. If you're early in your career and want to build real technical depth in modern application engineering while learning both established enterprise technologies and rapidly evolving AI capabilities, this is a good fit.

Meet your team

Private Cloud Products (PCP) Finance organization delivers leading finance applications as part of SAP’s enterprise portfolio, including SAP S/4HANA On Premise and the Private Cloud. We are a global development organization that works in close collaboration with customers and partners to support superior finance processes and new business models.

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