Senior Software Engineer

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision making through our leading AI infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the Fortune 50, including Coca Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer - just a few of the 2 400+ global companies who rely on our best in class platform.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy led, values based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let's build what's next - together!

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join Anaplan's Platform Engineering team in York or Manchester where you and the team will be responsible for streamlining the delivery of Anaplan's SaaS product offerings. The role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, and you'll have the opportunity to work with many different technologies. You will be contributing to the growth and expansion of the business and, in parallel, supporting the evolution of our technical stack through the implementation and adoption of new technologies. You will report to the leadership within Platform Engineering.

Your Impact

• Be a part of an agile, autonomous team that develops and supports internal backend tooling that helps our engineers to ship their services to customers.
• Actively champion and promote best practices for developing and delivering SaaS services into production safely and easily, with zero downtime.
• Apply and expand your skills as necessary. We really appreciate people who are keen to learn and grow.
• Have a focus on solving problems rather than building features.
• Pair with your colleagues to build everything from rapid prototypes to highly testable and tested platform capabilities.
• Lead technical discussions and projects.
• Mentor more junior engineers.
• Practice and coach others on best practices (clean code, refactoring, TDD, BDD).

Your Qualifications

• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to craft well architected and easy to reason about applications.
• Experience writing backend micro services. Bonus points if you have prior experience with Rust or other strongly typed languages.
• Experience with writing library code or contributing to open source style projects.
• Happy writing and maintaining documentation on our tooling for consumption by other teams in the company.
• You will have a strong focus on writing tests and will have a clear view of how and why different kinds of tests should be developed and run.
• Any experience using deployment tools/technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform or Harness is advantageous.
• Positive energy and enthusiasm - culture is a really big deal for us we're looking for really smart people who love solving big problems and are motivated to get things done.
• You're not afraid to show off your work, as well as learn new things.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of / willingness to pick up Rust and ideally experience with writing developer focused tooling and software previously.
• Demonstratable experience in at least one strongly typed programming language and one dynamic programming language - ideally Rust & NodeJS.
• Experience with public cloud providers, ideally AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines.
• Any experience with observability platforms such as Grafana would be advantageous.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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