Associate Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">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.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">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<em> </em>our wins – big and small.</p> <p>Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, <a href="https://www.anaplan.com/careers/">values</a>-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!</p></div><p>.</p> <p>At Anaplan, our calculation engine is the heart of our platform, powering real-time business planning for the world's largest enterprises. We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive software engineer to join our core R&D team, to help us build the next generation of this engine. This is a true research and development role where you will contribute to solving deeply complex problems in high-performance, distributed computing and grow your skills in high-performance computing.</p> <p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Develop Our Next Gen Engine:</strong> Support the development of the core server components of our calculation engine, including its recalculation logic, in-memory data structures, and high-speed data I/O pipelines.</li> <li><strong>Optimise Performance:</strong> Design, develop, and optimize novel algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC) using GPUs, with guidance from our senior engineers.</li> <li><strong>Own Your Code:</strong> Take full ownership of your components from initial design and commit, through to robust testing and deployment in a production environment.</li> <li><strong>Contribute to Innovation:</strong> Participate in research and prototyping of new approaches and design discussions. Master software development best practices with support from the team.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Your Skills</strong></p> <ul> <li>Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a curiosity to learn and share feedback.</li> <li>Some experience or strong demonstrated interest in designing and building high-performance, multi-threaded, and/or distributed systems.</li> <li>Familiarity with a low-level systems language, preferably Rust or C++. (We will support you developing expertise in both)</li> <li>A proven ability to analyse, debug, and solve technical challenges.</li> <li>A "quality-first" mindset, with a deep-seated belief in writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Desirable</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience of or demonstrated interest in applying the principles of mechanical sympathy and hardware-aware software design.</li> <li>Experience with CUDA C++ and/or GPU programming</li> <li>Experience of or demonstrated interest in language design and compiler implementation< ... (truncated, view full listing at source)