Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!
Anaplan are looking for a motivated PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER to work in an autonomous Agile team with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and honesty. We’re serious about attracting the best…we have hugely complex technical problems to solve, and offer unrestricted progression, a relaxed working environment, superb packages and much more. This position is based in our YORK office and will require in the office 2 days minimum .To drive this exceptional performance, we look for exceptional Software Engineers, regardless of your technical background or languages of choice— smart, passionate people who believe in simplicity, agility and performance and can choose and use the best tools for the job. In this role as a Principal Engineer the additional ability to support, enable and mentor your team is also required.
Your Impact
1. You will primarily be looking after the data presentation layer in our core calculation technology engine, working on Anaplan's Data Layer: High-volume, high-capacity, high-availability, high-performance big data
2. The team is a high performance autonomous team, taking responsibility for designing and developing feature changes
3. Commitment to quality, with an emphasis on doing things right the first time
4. We automate what we can, from development through to release
5. Be a key part of an agile, well-balanced, cross functional, autonomous team that develops and delivers exceptional software.
6. Actively champion and promote best practices for developing and delivering reliable SaaS services into production safely.
7. Applying and expanding your skills as necessary. We really appreciate people who are keen to learn and grow.
More About You
8. Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to craft well architected and easy to reason about applications regardless of the “tier”.
9. Expertise writing scalable backend micro-services using the JVM with Java, Kotlin and Spring Boot.
10. 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.
11. Experience using deployment tools/technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Chef or Puppet is advantageous.