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Original Posting Date: 10/26/2026
Job Title: Development Expert (Multiple Positions Available)
Location: 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Work Model: Hybrid Work Model
Ariba, Inc. seeks a Development Expert (multiple positions available) at our Palo Alto, CA location to define and evolve solution architecture for cloud-based procurement products in alignment with business goals, platform strategy, and customer needs.
Translate business and product requirements into technical designs, scalable architectures, and engineering models. Identify opportunities for architecture reuse, cross-team synergies, and shared component strategy. Collaborate closely with Product Owners and engineering teams to ensure technical feasibility, compliance, and release readiness. Review and guide design documents and implementation plans to ensure conformance with architectural guidelines, security, and performance standards. Mentor, coach, and elevate junior developers and peers by cultivating a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture. Proactively monitor architecture risks, estimate technical effort for business cases, and shape the product backlog accordingly. Champion agile development practices, architecture governance, and quality-by design principles. Develop, test, deploy, deliver, and maintain applications that meet business objectives and user needs, leveraging tools and programming paradigms to write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and efficient code, and conducting code reviews. Optimize and automate the software delivery process, including automated testing at multiple levels, to ensure that reliable software can be delivered. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance applications to optimize performance, security, and resolve customer issues including root cause analysis and preventive actions.
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field of study and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Travel: N/A.
This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.
Compensation Range Transparency: The annual base salary range for this position is $209,766 - $276,340. SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is $209,766 - $337,000. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.
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