Principal Software Engineer - API
at Anaplan
Manchester, Manchester (Remote)
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!
Team Description
As part of the Platform & AI Enablement team under GPTO Engineering, you’ll report to the Sr. Director Engineering API. This team is accountable for shaping enterprise data architecture, enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads, and acting as a technical bridge between engineering and architecture.
Your Impact
- Lead the design and delivery of platform capabilities powering enterprise-scale data processing, AI integration, and developer acceleration
- Partner with architects and senior engineers to set technical direction and align implementation patterns with long-term strategy
- Apply a product mindset to ensure platform solutions address real customer and business needs
- Deliver thought leadership and coding excellence across Java, React, Python, and other fit-for-purpose technologies
- Mentor and elevate engineers across teams through design reviews, pair programming, and sharing best practices
- Champion innovation in performance, tooling, and platform features, with an emphasis on enterprise reliability and scalability
- Collaborate across multiple global teams to drive API-first solutions that serve thousands of tenants and tens of thousands of customers
- Balance fast iteration on ideas with sound engineering practices to avoid technical dead-ends
- Contribute to technical planning, strategy, and retrospectives that shape the future of the platform
Your Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience in enterprise-scale, data-centric, or platform environments
- Deep expertise in distributed data technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and/or Pulsar
- Strong background in event-driven architectures, streaming pipelines, and data lakes
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML production systems, including prompt-based LLM integrations
- Expert-level Java development skills, with a polyglot mindset (comfortable in Python, React, or other languages as needed)
- Proven experience working in multi-team, global environments with strong collaboration and communication skills
- Track record of delivering API-first infrastructures supporting high throughput and enterprise reliability
- Knowledge of hybrid and cloud-agnostic infrastructures and their trade-offs
- Familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, and high-velocity release workflows
- Experience balancing speed of iteration with long-term sustainability and quality
Preferred Skills
- Have shaped architecture and platform strategy at enterprise scale
- Are passionate about mentorship and raising the bar for engineering culture without big egos
- Have scaled high-throughput, globally distributed systems that support thousands of tenants and tens of thousands of end users
- Thrive in API-first environments, bringing consistency and reliability across multiple products and teams
- Can balance rapid prototyping and fast iteration with long-term sustainability and quality
- Bring a polyglot mindset, matching the right technology to the challenge rather than defaulting to a single stack
- Enjoy working across globally distributed teams, embracing asynchronous collaboration and clear communication
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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