Overview

We’re looking for a Senior 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.

Responsibilities

• 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).

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, 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 a least one strongly typed programming language and one dynamic programming. 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, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

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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Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting