Senior Software Engineer

Anaplan is seeking a motivated Senior Software Engineer to work in an autonomous Agile team emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and honesty. We're serious about attracting the best. We have hugely complex technical problems to solve, and we offer unrestricted progression, a relaxed working environment, superb packages, and much more.

Working as part of a Platform Engineering group that supports the functions of Software Development, Ops, Security, and more, you and the team will streamline the delivery of a SaaS platform that is helping top-flight companies around the world make better-informed plans and decisions every day. Anaplan is a business-critical, tier-one system that must be highly available with low latency despite its complexity and scale.

We are always looking to recruit exceptional engineers, regardless of your language(s) of choice - smart, passionate people who believe in simplicity, agility, and performance and can choose and use the best tools for the job.

This role requires you to be in our York office, two days a week. 

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 efficiently, with zero downtime.
• Applying and expanding your skills as necessary. We appreciate people who are keen to learn and grow.
• 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.
• Architecting and engineering our release lifecycle management tooling.
• Mentoring more junior engineers.

Your Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience in at least one strongly typed programming language, ideally Rust.
• Demonstrable experience in at least one dynamic programming language, ideally nodeJS.
• Any experience using deployment tools/technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Harness is advantageous.
• Experience with Public Cloud – AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to craft well-architected and easy to reason about applications regardless of the "tier".
• Experience writing backend micro-services.
• Experience with writing library code or contributing to open-source-style projects.
• 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.
• Experience with Observability platforms such as Grafana would be advantageous.

 Technologies you will work with

• APIs, Rust
• Lambda, AWS Step Functions
• Jenkins, Harness
• Docker & Kubernetes & Helm
• AWS, GCP, and hybrid platforms
• Terraform & Terraform Enterprise
• Artifactory, Vault, GitHub
• Groovy, Python

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