Associate Software Engineer
at Anaplan
York, United Kingdom
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 who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who 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 love celebrating our wins – big and small.
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!
Anaplan is the backbone of business planning for some of the world’s most influential companies, including Coca-Cola, Nvidia, J&J, LvmH and JLR. As the trusted platform with native AI capabilities, we empower thousands of organizations to connect their planning process across supply chain, finance, and sales planning—driving more intelligent decisions faster. By partnering with Anaplan, businesses anticipate change, navigate complexity, and gain a competitive edge.
Team Description
You’ll join the Platform & AI Enablement team within our GPTO Engineering organization, reporting to the Sr. Director Engineering API. The team is responsible for building core capabilities that power our data and AI infrastructure—enabling scalable, resilient, and intelligent systems to support enterprise-scale Business Planning Software solutions.
Your Impact
- Design, build, and operate platform capabilities supporting batch, streaming, and AI-driven workloads
- Develop resilient and scalable systems using Apache Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, and cloud-native technologies
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to deploy models and enable generative AI use cases
- Implement integrations with data lakes and event stores to enable real-time data flow
- Contribute fullstack features, including React-based frontends and backend services in Java and Python
- Ensure code quality through clean, maintainable, and well-tested implementations
- Participate in design reviews, pair programming, and engineering best practices
- Deliver features across sprint cycles and collaborate with global teams
Your Qualifications
- 2-4 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, especially in platform/backend systems
- Expert-level skills in Java and strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Flink, and Pulsar for building distributed data pipelines
- Familiarity with scalable data storage and data lake integrations
- Proven ability to integrate AI/ML models and work with prompt-based applications
- Fullstack development skills including React
- Strong experience with CI/CD, branching strategies, and release automation
- Comfortable delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced, production environment
Preferred Skills
- Experience working in international and distributed teams
- Familiarity with cloud-agnostic architectures
- Exposure to observability tools and practices
- Background in AI/ML enablement initiatives
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!
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