Development Manager

We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Development Manager

Location: Montreal Type: Full-Time Travel: Up to 10%

About the Role

Were looking for a Development Manager to lead and grow a high-performing engineering team while staying close to the software development. This is a hybrid role roughly 50-60% leadership 40-50% individual contribution perfect for someone who loves building great software and great teams. Youll work on a cloud-native SaaS product Sales Cloud V2 used by businesses worldwide in a fast-paced agile environment.

What Youll Do

Lead & Grow Your Team

Hire mentor and develop engineers; build a culture of continuous learning and high standards

Set clear goals give timely feedback and actively support career growth

Remove blockers and create an environment where the team can do their best work

Guide the team towards Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) by using AI-powered development tools (e.g. Claude Code GitHub Copilot) to boost team productivity

Champion engineering best practices: test-driven development code quality CI/CD and observability

Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to align technical direction with business strategy

Build & Ship Software

Contribute to architecture decisions code reviews and complex technical problems

Design and implement cloud-native microservices and REST or event-driven APIs

Map business requirement (from customer / users) to technical solutions and plan tasks for your team

Ensure solutions are scalable maintainable and built to the highest quality standards

What Were Looking For

Leadership & Experience

5 years of software development experience including time in a people management or tech lead role

Proven track record of hiring growing and retaining engineering talent

Clear communicator who can align technical work with business outcomes

Experience working in agile / Scrum-based teams

Technical Skills

Strong hands-on coding skills in Java (Spring Boot preferred) and/or Python

Solid experience building and deploying cloud-native microservices using REST (HTTP/1.1) and/or gRPC/HTTP2

Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g. Kafka)

Experience building web applications using Angular

Working knowledge of document store (e.g. MongoDB) is a nice to have

Experience with AWS and DevOps/CI-CD tooling (Jenkins Spinnaker or similar)

Commitment to quality: test-driven development integration testing and meaningful code coverage

Ability to troubleshoot across the full stack in a cloud environment

Nice to Have

Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot

Experience leading an AI tooling transformation within an engineering organization

Agentic AI concepts and building agents

Background in CRM ERP or enterprise SaaS products

Education

Masters degree with 8 years or Bachelors degree with 10 years of software development experience. Equivalent practical experience is equally valued.

Why Join Us

Work on products used by businesses worldwide

Autonomy to shape your teams engineering culture and ways of working

Be at the forefront of integrating AI tools into everyday software development

Collaborative inclusive environment that values curiosity and continuous improvement

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.

We win with inclusion
SAPs culture of inclusion focus on health and well-being and flexible working models help ensure that everyone regardless of background feels included and can run at their best. At SAP we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Requisition ID: 454288 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Management Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid