Senior Software Engineer

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!

The Role The Core Performance engineering team is looking for a senior/mid-level/junior software engineer to build and maintain performance tests and performance test frameworks that underpin our performance work at Anaplan, as well as advocate for strong software engineering principles for performant software. Performance is at the heart of everything we do at Anaplan, so we need someone who loves performance as well as advocating for the performance of the platform.

Who are you?

• A Strong Engineer: You've worked on large codebases before, and know SOLID principles of software engineering
• Accountable and self-directed: You hold yourself to a high standard, work independently, and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Ownership mindset: You see problems through to resolution and treat platform performance as your responsibility.
• Scale-oriented thinking: You look beyond individual fixes, create solutions that work across teams, and enable adoption through influence rather than mandate.
• Bias toward automation: You actively seek to eliminate repetitive work through automation and build durable solutions rather than manual processes.
• Data first: You are data-first, opinion second: you care about the quality of data provided for any decision, and you hold yourself to the highest standards of data quality
• You care about quality: You're an advocate for quality in everything you do, and review code with quality in mind as well as advocate for performance of the platform
• You get stuck in quickly: Anaplan moves fast, and you move faster to keep up with what's going on and how you can get involved
• Strong Convictions, held loosely: You advocate and are passionate, but are completely open to other voices and opinions

Backend Engineer;

• Significant software engineering experience, working on large and complex systems
• Experience designing and building performant systems through sound engineering and architectural decisions
• Experience of delivering code into production and maintaining that code
• Experience working across both cloud and on-premise environments
• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance issues in production systems

Tech we use

• Java: We write many of our performance tests in Java, that compiles into jMeter
• jMeter: We performance test in jMeter
• Jenkins: We write our pipelines for performance testing in Jenkins, with deep integration into our "Core Server" delivery
• Grafana: Observability both of our pipelines and internal performance tests, as well as in production for performance of our customers

Experience

• Experience in a software engineering environment
• Experience creating and maintaining automated testing, preferably performance testing and the CICD tooling to support it

Your Qualifications

• Experience: 7-12 years of professional software engineering or equivalent.
• Delivery: A track record of delivering complex projects into production

Culture. As well as joining a passionate team, you’ll be part of the wider Anaplan engineering community in our Gurugram office . You’ll find yourself among peers who support one another’s careers and work together to build a winning culture. With the backing of this community, you will be empowered to grow into an even greater technical leader than you already are. We’ll give you the same support to take your career wherever you want it to go.

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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