Platform Engineer - API Gateways & Scale

Anaplan; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan is seeking an Engineer IV to join our Manchester, UK (or York) team. You will lead the design and delivery of platform capabilities powering API gateways, edge routing, and developer acceleration.

You will build high-throughput backend engines and drive multi-tenant isolation across thousands of tenants and users. You will influence technical direction with architects, champion GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm), and own features end-to-end while improving observability and handling complex

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering within enterprise-scale, high-throughput platform environments.
• Deep expertise in backend JVM languages (Java and/or Kotlin) with distributed systems knowledge.
• Proven track record delivering API-first infrastructures and edge routing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, delivery, and architecture of platform capabilities powering API gateways and edge routing.
• Build and scale backend engines for multi-tenant isolation and high throughput.
• Set technical direction with architects across the Platform Experience domain.
• Drive deployment infrastructure with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm) and container orchestration.
• Own features end-to-end, improve observability, and manage complex concurrency.

Tools

Traefik

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Helm

GitOps

API-first

Java/Kotlin

Distributed systems

Backend microservices

Job description

Anaplan is seeking an Engineer IV to join our Manchester, UK (or York) team. You will lead the design and delivery of platform capabilities powering API gateways, edge routing, and developer acceleration.

You will build high-throughput backend engines and drive multi-tenant isolation across thousands of tenants and users. You will influence technical direction with architects, champion GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm), and own features end-to-end while improving observability and handling complex