Senior Software Engineer

Nova Intelligence is building the most powerful AI platform for SAP teams. SAP is the heart of the enterprise: almost every critical business process at the worlds largest companies finance supply chain manufacturing sales runs on SAP. Our customers use Nova to 3x the productivity of their SAP teams: modernizing legacy code redesigning business processes resolving production issues and more.

Nova Intelligence was founded by AI researchers repeat entrepreneurs and the co-inventor of SAP HANA and has raised $40M from Accel Conviction and Chemistry.

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About this role

Were hiring software engineers to build the platform that powers Nova. The role spans agent infrastructure distributed systems product engineering and more. The common thread is solving hard problems without off-the-shelf solutions. Enterprise systems like SAP werent built for modern developer tooling so were building foundational infrastructure from scratch the indexing versioning authentication execution and integration layers that agents need to understand create and transform code at scale.

We hire across senior staff and principal levels. We dont use formal levels internally we look for people who can drive substantial work end-to-end and we reflect seniority in compensation.

What youll do

Build the core platform. Youll work on the systems that let the agent reliably navigate understand and operate on large interconnected SAP codebases code search at scale the version control layer weve built on top of SAP via off-stack editing authentication sandboxing tool calling and the agent orchestration that ties them together.

Make the agent reliable. Youll design evaluation frameworks and feedback loops that systematically improve agent performance on real customer workloads. Youll instrument what the agent does surface failure modes and turn customer scenarios into reproducible tests that drive measurable improvement.

Build for enterprise deployment. Youll ship the infrastructure that lets Nova run reliably at Fortune 500 scale automated deployments across many customer AWS accounts robust RBAC and permissioning for agents security and compliance (SSO audit data residency) and cloud and on-prem environment support.

Ship product end-to-end. Youll build the things customers see and use daily backend services integrations with the rest of the enterprise stack and the client applications customers live in every day.

What were looking for

• Youre a strong software engineer with a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end. We work primarily in Python JavaScript/React and Go.

• You have strong cloud and infrastructure chops. Familiarity with AWS is a must and youre comfortable working in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).

• You have informed opinions on agent design and frontier models. Youve used Claude Code Cursor Cline or similar enough to know what works and what doesnt and youve optimized your own workflow to ship faster.

• Youre comfortable with ambiguity. You can take an ill-defined problem and ship a solution without waiting to be told how.

• You communicate clearly across engineering and non-engineering audiences.

Background wed love to see

• 3 years of experience in backend infrastructure and distributed systems engineering

• 3 years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP) Kubernetes or similar

• Production experience with LLMs and AI agents

• Time at an early-stage startup

• Contributions to open-source projects in AI tooling developer tools or adjacent spaces

Why join

Youll work alongside top engineers AI researchers and SAP experts on technical problems few teams get to touch. What you ship runs inside the worlds largest enterprises applied AI on real mission-critical systems with measurable economic impact.

We use Nova to build Nova. Youll be a power user of your own tools obsessed with iteration speed and shipping fast.

Were a small highly talent-dense team. We offer competitive compensation meaningful equity and full health dental and vision coverage.

If you read this and recognize the role you want apply even if you dont match every line.

Required Experience:

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