Associate Backend Software Engineer, Anaplan

• Proven commercial professional software engineering experience building backend services
• Solid proficiency in Python, with experience writing well-structured, tested production code
• Experience with relational databases and SQL (e.g., Postgres); familiarity with data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake is a plus
• Exposure to containerized services and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Basic understanding of how ML and AI systems run in production and the data pipelines that support them
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and collaborative development practices
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of well-scoped systems and deliver against requirements with some ambiguity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• You will join the Predictive Intelligence engineering team within Anaplan, building the backend services that power the Syrup platform and Anaplan’s forecasting and predictive solutions
• The team owns the production services behind forecasting, scoring, and data processing, along with the pipelines and infrastructure that bring ML and AI capabilities to enterprise customers
• As a backend engineer, you will build and maintain core services across this stack, writing clean, well-tested Python while growing your craft alongside experienced engineers
• This role reports to the Director of Engineering for Predictive Intelligence and works closely with backend engineers, data scientists, and platform partners
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and data processing components across the Predictive Intelligence stack
• Contribute to the forecasting, scoring, and data processing services that deliver predictive insights, with attention to performance, reliability, and code quality
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Python and follow established engineering best practices
• Work with data scientists and ML engineers to integrate models into production services and support the pipelines around them
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions, and incorporate feedback to grow as an engineer
• Take part in on-call rotations as you ramp, and help monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues across services and pipelines
• Collaborate across the team to deliver well-scoped features end to end

• Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person
• Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication