Associate Software Engineer

Anaplan are looking for a motivated ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER working in autonomous Scrum teams 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.

What you'll be doing:

• Be part of a well-balanced, cross functional team, delivering exceptional software.
• Actively practice continuous integration and deployment and proactively contribute improvements to the way these are done
• Write tests at every level of the testing pyramid to ensure the quality of your work is good to go to production every time we build
• Be capable of working within an agile development process and are self-driven enough to thrive in an environment that promotes high levels of autonomy.
• Be driven by the customer, everything you do is to solve a problem for our users or to enable us to solve problems for users more effectively/sustainably.
• Apply your expertise across the full stack as necessary. We recognise specialisms but appreciate open minded people who will step out of their comfort zone to complete their work and expand their skill set.
• Liaise with the product owner to set expectations and define acceptance criteria
• Work on an exciting product vision which will change the way in which the world’s largest enterprises do their planning
• Good attention to detail - you will create applications which solve significant problems for our users, this drives you more so than anything

More about you:

• Good problem-solving skills and ability to craft well architected and easy to reason about applications regardless of the "tier".
• Solid toolkit of design patterns and ability to choose the right ones to apply to each problem.
• Understanding of JavaScript (ES2015+), HTML and CSS to produce well-structured and semantic markup.
• Familiarity with full stack architectural patterns such as micro-frontends, Backend for front end etc.
• Interested in writing scalable backend micro-services, bonus points if you know the JVM (Java and Kotlin mostly using Spring Boot).
• Experience using deployment tools/technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is advantageous
• Writing well thought out tests at the appropriate level
• Quality is extremely important and we expect it to be for our engineers too.
• Positive energy and enthusiasm - cultural fit is a really big deal for us…we're looking for really smart people who love solving big problems and are self-motivated to get things done.

What we offer:

• A rewarding, progressive career with a company that values diversity, flexibility and understands the need for a good work/life balance.
• Market-leading salaries combined with generous bonuses and a range of comprehensive benefits
• A range of sports, health and wellbeing initiatives.
• Paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave if you’ve been with us for at least six months. Plus, a shared parental leave programme.
• Wellbeing support through 'We Care'.
• 3 days of paid leave every year to help support the charity or cause of your choice.
• Huge problems to solve –you will constantly be learning and pushing boundaries, working with some of the smartest people around!