Software Engineer, SAP ABAP Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Implement new ABAP features and enhancements as directed by the product team.

• Utilize functional and object-oriented programming principles.

• Develop clean, readable, well-documented, maintainable, and secure code.

• Create and uphold unit tests while contributing to integration testing coverage.

• Engage actively in code review processes.

• Assist with transport management and release packaging across development, quality assurance, and production environments.

• Aid in root cause analysis and address production defects.

• Provide technical escalation support for intricate customer issues requiring ABAP-level diagnosis.

• Transform customer-reported issues into reproducible defects and ensure their resolution.

• Develop documentation and tools to minimize escalations.

• Stay updated with contemporary ABAP practices, including ABAP for Cloud, RAP, ABAP Unit, clean core principles, and AI-assisted development.

• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Grasp the product, customer needs, and business context to enhance engineering decisions.

• Execute product and roadmap decisions to a high standard while providing technical insights.

• Implement architectural and security decisions following established directions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong, demonstrable proficiency in ABAP, including both classical and modern language syntax and development principles.

• Extensive knowledge of ABAP Objects: interfaces, inheritance, class-based exceptions, and design patterns such as factory, builder, dispatcher, and task queue.

• Robust ABAP Dictionary skills: including transparent tables, views, data elements, domains, table types, lock objects, and search helps.

• Practical experience with RFC and parallel processing: asynchronous RFC, task queues and dispatching, enqueue locking and synchronization, background jobs, and shared memory objects.

• Proficient in HTTP/REST integration from ABAP and in serializing/parsing JSON and XML payloads at high volumes.

• Performance-focused development for high-volume data extraction: efficient Open SQL, internal table management at scale, and runtime analysis.

• Knowledge of core computer engineering principles: data structures, algorithmic complexity, modularity, encapsulation, and separation of concerns.

• Experience across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): including development, testing, transport management, and production support.

• Familiarity with SAP security concepts relevant to ABAP development — including authorization objects, input validation, and injection prevention.

• Capability to write code that is not only functional but also easily understandable by others.

• A curious mindset with the discipline to act upon findings: actively seeking and applying new techniques.

• Strong preference for experience with RAP, ABAP for Cloud, Clean ABAP guidelines, or ABAP Unit testing frameworks.

• Strong preference for familiarity with SAP observability, monitoring, or security tools.

• Strong preference for experience within a product-focused company.

• Strong preference for exposure to DevOps or CI/CD practices within a SAP context.

• Strong preference for experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools.

• Strong preference for working knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, Elastic, or OCI Logging.

• Strong preference for experience querying and monitoring SAP HANA using ADBC / native SQL.

• Strong preference for familiarity with SAP Gateway and OData, SLT/LTRC, IDoc/ALE, and AIF.

• Proficiency in English as the working language.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary in Poland: PLN 25,000 - 33,000 per month.

• Employment contract (umowa o pracę) in Poland.

• 26 days of paid annual leave.

• Private medical coverage.

• Remote work options within Poland.

• Discretionary annual bonus, subject to plan terms.

• Stock option grant, contingent on plan eligibility.

• Base salary in Germany: €72,000 – €95,000 gross per year.

• Permanent employment contract in Germany.

• 30 days of paid annual leave.

• Statutory health, pension, and care benefits.

• Work options in Berlin or remote within Germany.

• Discretionary annual bonus, subject to plan terms.

• Stock option grant, dependent on plan eligibility.

• Employment via RHONDOS's employer-of-record partner in the country of residence.

• Terms governed by local employment law.

• English as the working language.