Title: Senior Software Engineer

Department: Cloud Sustaining Engineering

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Reports To: Director, Software Development

FLSA Status:  Exempt

Company Overview

Come join the brightest, most dedicated, most energetic engineers, marketers, project managers, sales, service, and finance professionals in the Bay Area!

Ariba, an SAP company, is the global leader in business commerce networks, supporting more than $450 billion dollars in yearly trade between over 1 million connected companies.  Ariba is transforming the way the world conducts business and is poised for strong continued growth with its innovation around the commerce graph. Every day, we help companies big and small collaborate with trading partners to manage spend, cut costs, reduce risk, and grow revenue. This collaboration is enabled through the Ariba Network, a cloud-based community where companies find buying, selling, and managing cash to be as easy as using Amazon, eBay, and PayPal; Ariba Exchange, a free online place where business commerce professionals network and share information and best practices, just like friends on Facebook; and the Networked Economy Blog, where we share best practices and thought leadership on procurement and financial management topics with companies across the globe.

Ariba provides professionals the opportunity to solve some of the world’s most challenging large-scale, cloud-based problems. We offer:

•              Interesting, collaborative work with some of the best folks in the Bay Area

•              21 paid PTO days

•              10 holidays + winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day – allpaid!

•              Mon.-Thurs. free lunch and Friday beer & wine bash

•              Bright, sunny, and spacious offices in central Sunnyvale with free parking, Caltrain shuttle, and transit subsidy

•              Flexible work schedule and telecommuting opportunities

•              Choice of medical plans, 401(k), etc.

We are growing and looking for talented people to help.

Duties and Responsibilities:

In this role you will be responsible for the development of key functional areas of Ariba Applications, Platform and Ariba network to ensure the system effectively delivers business values and is highly in secure, scalable and reliable.   Day-to-day your job will be to work with a close, tight-knit team of talented and experienced developers to prototype, build, iterate on and ship, great code.

Basic Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience developing production-grade web applications (Java preferred)
• 3+ years direct programming experience with user interface frameworks (Struts, JSF, Tapestry, Rails, ZK, Wicket, GWT, etc)
• High-level of expertise with web technologies HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XMLHTTP, Web Servers including Apache, Tomcat
• Excellent communication skills
• Passion for UI development, UI “smarts” and a bias toward building frameworks
• First-class object-oriented design and programming skills
• BS or MS in CS or equivalent
• An excellent problem-solver and an awesome team-player

Ariba, Inc. is an EEO/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected category