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>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 a skilled 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 solve deeply complex problems in high-performance, distributed computing and directly influence the future of our product.</p> <p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Develop Our Next Gen Engine:</strong> Build and enhance 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 optimise novel algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC), ensuring our engine achieves maximum performance on target hardware architectures (including GPUs).</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>Champion Innovation:</strong> Proactively research and prototype new approaches, contribute to design specifications, and champion modern DevOps and software development best practices within 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>Experience designing and building high-performance, multi-threaded, and/or distributed systems.</li> <li>Proficiency in a low-level systems language, preferably Rust or C++. (If you are comfortable in one, we are happy to help you master the other).</li> <li>Comfort and willingness to work across languages and components as required.</li> <li>A proven ability to analyse, debug, and solve complex 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>Direct experience with HPC and/or applying the principles of mechanical sympathy and hardware-aware software design.</li> <li>Experience with CUDA C++ and GPU programming</li> <li>Experience with lan ... (truncated, view full listing at source)