Senior Software Engineer

at  Anaplan

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading 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 who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.
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 be your best self!
Anaplan has an opportunity for a self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join a cross-functional engineering team in our London office who is pivotal in defining the platforms used by hundreds of software engineers.
Working in the Platform Engineering group that supports the functions of Software Development, Ops, Security, and more, you and the team will be streamlining the delivery of the Anaplan platform that helps 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 complexity and scale.
The Environment Tooling team builds tools and services that enable our software engineers to deliver new, well-tested software to production safely, reliably, and regularly. The team’s skills include cloud infrastructure, development of APIs and backend services, front-end web UIs, and automated component and integration testing. We have unparalleled access to our users – they are our colleagues!
You will join a team of individuals who embrace and respect diverse perspectives, aren’t afraid to push boundaries and try new ideas, and are passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to craft solutions that are well-architected and easy to reason about
• Industry experience in Go development
• A strong focus on writing tests. You will have a clear view of how and why different kinds of tests should be developed and run
• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience working in a team that builds, deploys, and operates their own services
• Experience developing containerised applications, preferably running atop Kubernetes, is advantageous
• Strong written and verbal communication, ideally with experience writing technical documents such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and user guides
• A good understanding of the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrated ability to learn new tools and languages on the job
• The ability to bring positive energy and enthusiasm to work - culture is a really big deal for us, and we’re looking for smart people who love solving big problems and are motivated to get things done

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH:

• Writing Kubernetes Operators
• Google Cloud Platform and GKE
• Amazon Web Services and EKS
• TypeScript and Vue.js
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