It Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

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!

Anaplan is looking for aSenior Software Engineer to join our Experience Engineering workstream. You will be a founding member of a new team dedicated to adapting our platform for a global audience. This is a unique opportunity to solve the complex challenges of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) at scale for our award‑winning planning technology. As Anaplan continues its strong growth in a competitive global market, delivering a world‑class, localized experience is a key strategic priority for our next phase of expansion.

We are looking for an exceptional and passionate engineer who believes in simplicity, agility, and performance. In this role, you will architect the systems, build the tools, and establish the best practices that enable Anaplan to deliver a seamless, intuitive, and culturally relevant experience to customers in every market.

• Architect, build, and own the internationalization (i18n) platform and infrastructure required for high‑quality, continuous localization.
• Directly enhance the experience for our global customers, making our platform more intuitive, accessible, and powerful for users in their native language.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure new features are designed and built with global readiness in mind from the start.
• Develop and maintain the pipeline for continuous localization, integrating with Translation Management Systems (TMS) and automating the flow of content.
• Solve complex technical challenges related to pluralization, date/number formatting, and creating flexible UIs that accommodate diverse languages.
• Serve as the subject matter expert on internationalization, providing guidance and setting standards for teams across the engineering organization.
• Write tests at every level of the testing pyramid to ensure the quality and accuracy of localized experiences.

• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to craft well‑architected, scalable, and easy‑to‑maintain systems.
• Deep understanding of i18n libraries and frameworks (e.g., i18next, ICU, react‑intl).
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to build consensus and guide technical decisions with empathy and clarity.

• Expertise in software internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) for a large‑scale enterprise SaaS application.
• Expertise with encoding standards like Unicode and best practices for handling global data.
• Familiarity with adapting front‑end architecture to support multiple locales and the complexities of internationalized user interfaces.
• Expertise in writing scalable backend microservices; experience with the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot) is a major plus.
• Experience with deployment tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Core Localization: react-intl and Translation Management System (TMS) APIs.
• Back‑End: Java, Kotlin, Spring Framework.

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