Senior ML Backend Engineer — MLOps & Production AI

Anaplan Inc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Predictive Intelligence team in Manchester.

You will build scalable ML backend services powering forecasting solutions, working with data scientists and platform partners to productionize models and maintain high-availability production systems. You will design and operate MLOps pipelines, deployment workflows, and runtime infrastructure across cloud environments, aiming for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with a track record of writing performant, well-tested production code.
• Hands-on experience operating containerized services on Kubernetes in at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with data warehousing or analytics technologies such as Snowflake, Iceberg, Trino, or Postgres.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating ML models in production, including familiarity with MLOps tooling such as MLflow.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant predictive intelligence services and features as a core contributor to the ML Engine backend.
• Lead the technical implementation of MLOps capabilities, including model training pipelines, deployment workflows, and runtime infrastructure for production ML.
• Partner with data scientists to productionize models and graduate experimental work into stable, observable production services.
• Drive the evolution of forecasting, scoring, and data processing services with a focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the operational health of high-availability production services, including incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews, raising the quality bar across the team and mentoring mid-level and junior engineers.
• Identify and drive cross-cutting platform improvements that benefit multiple services and teams.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

ML Ops

Data Warehousing

Production Backend

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Postgres

Airflow

MLflow

dbt

Job description

Anaplan Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Predictive Intelligence team in Manchester.

You will build scalable ML backend services powering forecasting solutions, working with data scientists and platform partners to productionize models and maintain high-availability production systems. You will design and operate MLOps pipelines, deployment workflows, and runtime infrastructure across cloud environments, aiming for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.