2 days ago
York, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, and architecture of enterprise-scale API gateway, edge-routing, and developer-acceleration platform capabilities.
- Build and scale high-throughput backend engines for request orchestration, multi-tenant isolation, and API-first services.
- Set technical direction for initiatives involving vanity URLs, JWT authentication flows, and cross-service proxying.
- Evolve deployment infrastructure using GitOps workflows, ArgoCD, Helm, and highly available containerized orchestration.
- Own foundational features end-to-end while improving observability, rate limiting, and concurrency management.
- Deliver Java/Kotlin backend services and integrate them with UI components, distributed edge proxies, and cross-origin requirements.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews, pair programming, and architectural collaboration.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering for enterprise-scale, high-throughput platform or data-centric environments.
- Deep expertise in Java and/or Kotlin and strong knowledge of distributed systems internals.
- Experience delivering API-first infrastructure, API gateways such as Traefik, and edge-routing solutions handling sustained traffic loads of 2K+ requests per second.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, ArgoCD, and high-velocity release workflows.
- Grounding in event-driven architecture, real-time data processing, and large-scale database transaction management.
- Ability to use modern AI tools and concepts, including agentic programming patterns and LLM-assisted workflows, to accelerate platform engineering.
- Strong technical communication skills, including writing structured RFCs and architectural designs and aligning globally distributed teams.
- Preferred experience shaping enterprise-scale platform strategy across hybrid or cloud-agnostic infrastructures.
- Preferred comfort exploring React, Python, or Go and mentoring engineers across distributed teams.
About Anaplan
Anaplan builds a cloud platform for enterprise planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling used by finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce teams. It sells subscription software and related services to large organizations that need connected, cross-functional planning. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, Anaplan was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2022 after previously trading on the NYSE.