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!
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the architectural vision and technical excellence of our core systems. You will lead by example, mentoring engineers and solving our most complex scaling challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creative Architecture: Architect and scale high-performance, distributed Java backend systems, bringing bold, out-of-the-box thinking to solve enterprise-level challenges.
- Tenacious Leadership: Act as a technical leader, motivating others, driving positive change, and taking accountability for mission-critical services.
- Collaborative Mentorship: Go out of your way to help others succeed by mentoring junior engineers, avoiding knowledge silos, and inspiring the wider organization.
- Open Transparency: Champion transparent internal communications regarding technical strategies, actively seeking views from the wider team before implementing new technical standards.
Requirements & Technical Skills:
- Experience: 10+ years of proven experience in backend engineering, with a track record of delivering enterprise-grade SaaS products.
- Advanced Core Java: Deep expertise in the Java ecosystem, including JVM internals, memory management, garbage collection tuning, and advanced multithreading/concurrency.
- System Architecture: Extensive experience in designing and building scalable distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven architectures. Strong understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Advanced Databases & Storage: Deep knowledge of database optimization, sharding, and replication. Experience with a mix of SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and distributed NoSQL/columnar databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch).
- Event Streaming: Strong expertise in high-throughput event streaming and messaging platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka).
- Cloud Native & Orchestration: Production-level experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) and extensive experience operating in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Security & Compliance: Solid understanding of backend security best practices, identity and access management (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), and data encryption techniques.
- Observability: Experience implementing robust monitoring, logging, and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog.
- Values: A highly Authentic leader who is respectfully direct, gives the benefit of the doubt, and a deeply Inclusive team player who finds strength in differences to foster innovation.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer
It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.
Anaplan does not:
- 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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years proven backend engineering experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS products
- Deep expertise in Core Java and JVM internals, memory management, garbage collection tuning, and advanced multithreading/concurrency
- Designing and building scalable distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Database optimization, sharding, replication experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and NoSQL/columnar (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch)
- High-throughput event streaming and messaging (e.g., Apache Kafka)
- Production-level experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Extensive experience operating in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Understanding of backend security best practices, identity and access management (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), and data encryption
- Implementing observability: monitoring, logging, tracing with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, and strong internal communication skills
Anaplan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Anaplan and has not been reviewed or approved by Anaplan.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Earnings potential in sales is considered good or fair, with on‑target earnings achievable when plans are met. This indicates variable pay can meaningfully boost total compensation when targets are hit.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as strong, complemented by mental‑health resources and EAP support. Company‑wide paid wellbeing days reinforce the health and wellness focus.
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Parental & Family Support — Equitable parental and caregiver leave are highlighted alongside fertility and adoption support. Family‑forming programs such as Carrot are part of the offering.
Anaplan Insights
What We Do
Anaplan is building a future where connected leaders and teams are able to constantly adapt, transform and reinvent their businesses. We make it possible to share actionable insights, empower and unleash creativity, and drive innovation. With Anaplan, finance and operational leaders across the organization can model complex scenarios, forecast continuously with added intelligence, and make agile decisions with confidence.
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