Software Engineer - Rust

Anaplan; York; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer, where you'll tackle complex technical challenges in an agile team. This role emphasizes collaboration and innovation, allowing you to influence the development of a leading SaaS platform. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Rust, Docker, and AWS, contributing to the creation of tools that empower engineers and enhance service delivery. With a commitment to diversity and a culture that values every individual's unique contributions, this is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while making a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Experience with backend micro-services and Rust is a plus.
• Strong focus on writing tests and maintaining documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support internal backend tooling for service delivery.
• Champion best practices for deploying SaaS services safely.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Backend micro-services

Documentation

Writing tests

Rust programming

Deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes)

Observability platforms (Grafana)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading 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 that 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 have fun celebrating our wins.

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 be your best self!

Anaplan are looking for a motivated Software Engineer to work in an autonomous Agile team with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and honesty. We're serious about attracting the best...we have hugely complex technical problems to solve, and offer unrestricted progression, a relaxed working environment, superb packages and much more.Working as part of a Platform Engineering group that supports the functions of Software Development, Ops, Security and more, you and the team will be streamlining the delivery of a SaaS platform that is helping top-flight companies around the world to make better- informed plans and decisions every day. Anaplan is a business critical, tier-one system that must be highly available with low latency, despite complexity and scale.

We are always looking to recruit exceptional engineers, regardless of your language(s) of choice - smart, passionate people who believe in simplicity, agility andperformance and can choose and use the best tools for the job.

Your Impact

• Be a part of an agile, autonomous team that develops and supports internal backend tooling that helps our engineers to ship their services to customers.
• Actively champion and promote best practices for developing and delivering SaaS services into production safely and easily, with zero-downtime.
• Applying and expanding your skills as necessary. We really appreciate people who are keen to learn and grow.
• Have a focus on solving problems rather than building features.
• Pair with your colleagues to build everything from rapid prototypes to highly
• testable and tested platform capabilities.
• Developing our release lifecycle management tooling.
• Mentoring more junior engineers.

More About You

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to craft well architected and easy to reason about applications regardless of the "tier".
• Experience writing backend micro-services. Bonus points if you have prior experience with Rust or other strongly typed languages.
• Experience with writing library code or contributing to open source style projects.
• Happy writing and maintaining documentation on our tooling for consumption by other teams in the company.
• You will have a strong focus on writing tests and will have a clear view of how and why different kinds of tests should be developed and run.
• Any experience using deployment tools/technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform or Harness is advantageous.
• Positive energy and enthusiasm - culture is a really big deal for us...we're looking for really smart people who love solving big problems and are motivated to get things done.
• You're not afraid to show off your work, as well as learn new things.
• Any experience with Observability platforms such as Grafana would beadvantageous.

Knowledge of / willingness to pick up Rust and ideally experience with writing developer focused tooling and software previously.

Technologies you will work with:

• APIs, Rust
• Lambda, AWS Step Functions
• Jenkins, Harness
• Docker & Kubernetes & Helm
• AWS, GCP and hybrid platforms
• Terraform & Terraform Enterprise
• Artifactory, Vault, GitHub

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 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.

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