Anaplan

Principal Software Engineer, API

Anaplan

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ApacheCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaPulsarPythonReact

About the role

  • 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
  • Report to the Sr. Director Engineering API as part of the Platform & AI Enablement team under GPTO Engineering, shaping enterprise data architecture and enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads

Requirements

  • 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: Have shaped architecture and platform strategy at enterprise scale
  • Preferred: Passionate about mentorship and raising the bar for engineering culture without big egos
  • Preferred: Have scaled high-throughput, globally distributed systems that support thousands of tenants and tens of thousands of end users
  • Preferred: Thrive in API-first environments, bringing consistency and reliability across multiple products and teams
  • Preferred: Can balance rapid prototyping and fast iteration with long-term sustainability and quality
  • Preferred: Bring a polyglot mindset, matching the right technology to the challenge rather than defaulting to a single stack
  • Preferred: Enjoy working across globally distributed teams, embracing asynchronous collaboration and clear communication