Development Expert/Staff - SAP Concur Spend
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 27, 2026.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
SAP Concur is the market leader in integrated travel, expense, and invoice management, serving millions of users worldwide.
The Concur Spend Admin engineering team owns the full administration lifecycle of the Concur Spend platform - admin UI, onboarding, entity lifecycle management, and partner and implementation team support. We build the tools that administrators use to configure, monitor, and optimize their expense programs and that SAP uses to provision and manage the lifecycle of tenants. Our stack includes React and TypeScript frontends; Java/Spring Boot and Node.js services; Python services for AI use cases; and AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. We ship to production frequently, operate what we build, and use AI coding tools (including Claude Code) daily across the team.
We are building a new team in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape the culture and practices of a team from day one.
THE ROLE
As a Development Expert on the Concur Spend Admin team in São Leopoldo, you will set technical direction across multiple services or product areas. You will lead the team's hardest technical initiatives, make architectural decisions with long-term consequences, and establish patterns that others follow.
Our technical challenges span multi-model AI integration, event-driven microservice architectures, data platforms at scale, and high-availability systems. You would lead the technical approach on problems like these and constantly improve engineering practices across the team. We are looking for someone who moves easily into new topics and raises the bar.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Set technical direction across multiple services or product areas
- Lead the team's hardest and highest-leverage technical initiatives
- Make architectural decisions with long-term consequences
- Constantly improve engineering practices in the team and beyond
- Improve reliability and architecture across services
- Participate in product discovery alongside Product Management, UX, and customers
- Contribute to architectural decisions on AI integration patterns, including model selection, prompt design, evaluation, and reliability
- Collaborate with team members in Vancouver, Bellevue, and São Leopoldo across time zones
REQUIRED EXPERIENCES AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- The ability to solve technical problems by writing actual working code; this is very much a hands-on position
- Deep experience across multiple areas of the technology stack
- Experience setting technical direction and making architectural decisions that others follow
- The ability to understand root causes across systems and drive solutions end to end
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCES AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, TypeScript, and Python
- Experience with React and Redux
- Experience with Spring Boot and/or Node.js/Express
- Experience designing and building systems that integrate with LLMs or other AI/ML services (prompt engineering, model evaluation, RAG patterns, vector search)
- Deep experience with AWS (EKS, S3, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena), Kubernetes, and service mesh (Istio)
- Experience with data engineering: ETL pipelines, data lakes, SQL analytics at scale
- Experience with SQL databases (SQL Server, MySQL)
- Experience with event-driven and microservice architectures, workflow engines (Temporal), or distributed systems
- Experience with CI/CD and automated testing
- Understanding of security, performance engineering, and observability in production systems
- Strong product judgment and commitment to a high-quality user experience
- Evidence of excellence in some capacity (could be via personal projects, open source contributions, recognized expertise in a domain, etc.)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Experience providing technical direction across multiple systems or teams. Recognized internally or externally as a subject matter expert in at least one area.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: 451199 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid