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!

At Anaplan, our calculation engine is the heart of our platform, powering real-time business planning for the world's largest enterprises. We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive software engineer to join our core R&D team, to help us build the next generation of this engine. This is a true research and development role where you will contribute to solving deeply complex problems in high-performance, distributed computing and grow your skills in high-performance computing.

Your Impact

Develop Our Next Gen Engine: Support the development of the core server components of our calculation engine, including its recalculation logic, in-memory data structures, and high-speed data I/O pipelines.
Optimise Performance: Design, develop, and optimize novel algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC) using GPUs, with guidance from our senior engineers.
Own Your Code: Take full ownership of your components from initial design and commit, through to robust testing and deployment in a production environment.
Contribute to Innovation: Participate in research and prototyping of new approaches and design discussions. Master software development best practices with support from the team.

Your Skills

Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a curiosity to learn and share feedback.
Some experience or strong demonstrated interest in designing and building high-performance, multi-threaded, and/or distributed systems.
Familiarity with a low-level systems language, preferably Rust or C++. (We will support you developing expertise in both)
A proven ability to analyse, debug, and solve technical challenges.
A "quality-first" mindset, with a deep-seated belief in writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.

Desirable

Experience of or demonstrated interest in applying the principles of mechanical sympathy and hardware-aware software design.
Experience with CUDA C++ and/or GPU programming
Experience of or demonstrated interest in language design and compiler implementation
Familiarity with functional programming principles and concepts

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! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer 

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not: 

Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.  
Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.  

Associate Software Engineer

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