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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Nova Intelligence'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Nova Intelligence

- **Company:** Nova Intelligence
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence/128d1ed2-e9f4-47f0-9c0b-c547c00577cf

## Job description

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 world's 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 [SAP.io](http://SAP.io), Accel, Conviction, and Chemistry. [Check out the Launch Video](https://player.mux.com/Ji004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI?amp%3Bmetadata-video-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&%3Bprimary-color=%23ffffff%29&%3Bvideo-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&poster=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.mux.com%2FJi004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI%2Fthumbnail.jpg%3Ftime%3D26%26width%3D1280%26height%3D720%26fit_mode%3Dcrop)

## About this role

We're 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 weren't built for modern developer tooling, so we're 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 don't use formal levels internally — we look for people who can drive substantial work end-to-end — and we reflect seniority in compensation.

## What you'll do

Build the core platform. You'll work on the systems that let the agent reliably navigate, understand, and operate on large, interconnected enterprise codebases — code search at scale, authentication, sandboxing, tool calling, and the agent orchestration that ties them together. Make the agent reliable. You'll design evaluation frameworks and feedback loops that systematically improve agent performance on real customer workloads. You'll instrument what the agent does, surface failure modes, and turn customer scenarios into reproducible tests that drive measurable improvement. Build for enterprise deployment. You'll 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. You'll 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 we're looking for

- You're 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 you're comfortable working in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
- You have informed opinions on agent design and frontier models. You've used Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, or similar enough to know what works and what doesn't, and you've optimized your own workflow to ship faster.
- You're 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 we'd 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

You'll work alongside top engineers, AI researchers, and SAP experts on technical problems few teams get to touch. What you ship runs inside the world's largest enterprises — applied AI on real, mission-critical systems with measurable economic impact. We use Nova to build Nova. You'll be a power user of your own tools, obsessed with iteration speed and shipping fast. We're 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 don't match every line.

## About Nova Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nova Intelligence provides an agentic AI platform for SAP teams to document, simplify, build, and test custom code, enabling faster S/4HANA transformation and a clean core.
- **Entity Type**: Private (raised $40M; backed by SAP.iO, Accel, and Chemistry)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Emma Qian (CEO), Samuel Yang (CTO), Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier (Chief Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / SAP modernization
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 companies running SAP (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Revolutionizing how the world’s largest companies operate – in SAP and beyond” by merging deep SAP expertise with cutting-edge AI.

## Products & Services
- **Nova Platform (Agentic AI for SAP)**: An AI agent platform that accelerates SAP development, documentation, testing, and fit-to-standard analysis. Key capabilities:
  - **AI Coding & Debugging**: Generate and modernize ABAP Cloud and BTP CAP code, debug production issues, and perform unit testing.
  - **Fit-to-Standard Analysis**: Map custom code to SAP standard to reduce complexity and TCO.
  - **Documentation**: Automatically generate and maintain functional and technical documentation.
  - **Security Testing**: Zero-trust security model, automated security checks in CI/CD, dependency scanning, and penetration testing.
  - **Impact Analysis**: Understand how changes affect the entire SAP landscape.
  - **Clean Core Transformation**: Ensure upgrade-safe, standard-first customizations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $40M total funding (announced in 2025/2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Chemistry, SAP.iO (SAP’s venture arm)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 110% year-over-year headcount growth (now ~15 employees per LinkedIn)
  - Teams using Nova report 3x productivity boosts and 5x average gains across tasks
  - SOC 2 and GDPR compliant; zero-trust security infrastructure

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep SAP Expertise**: Co-founded by the co-inventor of SAP HANA (Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier) and a former Google DeepMind AI researcher (Emma Qian).
- **Silicon Valley + SAP Heartland Blend**: Combines best practices from top VCs with decades of SAP domain knowledge.
- **Security by Design**: Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3, AES-256), HSM-backed keys, role-based access, and audit logging.
- **Platform Lock-In with Clean Core**: Agents natively enforce SAP’s Clean Core strategy, making upgrades safer and reducing long-term TCO.
- **Speed as a Moat**: Claim to compress weeks of work into hours or days.

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating S/4HANA transformation** and reducing custom code complexity for large enterprises.
- **Expanding beyond SAP** into adjacent enterprise systems, as hinted by “in SAP and beyond.”
- **Building a category-defining company** in the $100B+/year SAP ecosystem, with plans to scale engineering, sales, and customer engineering teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Flat, fast, AI-first – every engineer gets unlimited access to Codex/Claude Code. “Every line of code you ship powers systems that move billions of dollars.”
- **Compensation**: Top-of-market cash, meaningful early-stage equity, quarterly performance bonuses.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco and New York; global travel to meet customers and teammates (Zurich, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City).
- **Perks**: Medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, annual company offsites.
- **Values**: “Debate fast, commit fully,” “customer obsessed,” “no task is beneath anyone,” and “speed is a moat.”
- **Team Composition**: Small but mighty – work alongside ex-founders, top AI researchers, and SAP veterans.

## Sources
1. [novaintelligence.com](https://www.novaintelligence.com/)
2. [novaintelligence.com/about](https://www.novaintelligence.com/about)
3. [novaintelligence.com/careers](https://www.novaintelligence.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence)
5. [linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence)

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