Principal Full Stack Engineer ()

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 whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 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 youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

Role Overview
In this Principal role you will lead the design build and operational excellence of core platform capabilities covering backend services modern frontend applications and critical platform infrastructure or APIs. You will drive architectural strategy mentor senior engineers collaborate at cross functional and technical leadership levels and ensure the system scales reliably across global enterprise use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement the architecture and delivery of backend services and microservices supporting high throughput globally distributed systems.
• Lead frontend development using modern frameworks (React/Angular/ TypeScript) for responsive performant enterprise grade applications.
• Drive design and implementation of containerization/Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes) for production scale deployment and standardization across teams.
• Partner with cross functional leaders (product UX QA architecture) to shape roadmap align technical strategy with business priorities and ensure rapid but sustainable delivery.
• Establish engineering best practices: code reviews technical mentorship continuous improvement testing frameworks CI/CD pipelines observability and platform health.
• Own cloud-native delivery (AWS GCP Azure) infrastructure-as-code monitoring and operational resilience for mission critical capabilities.
• Lead riskidentification and mitigation optimize system performance ensure scalability and reliability across multitenant enterprise environments.
• Act as a mentor and thought leader enabling engineers across teams contributing to onboarding knowledge sharing industry innovation and engineering culture.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive professional software engineering experience (or analogous senior technical leadership) with deep expertise in Java and object-oriented design.
• Proven full stack development background: frontend (JavaScript HTML CSS) and backend (APIs databases distributed systems).
• Demonstrated experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React Angular or ) and proficiency with TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design relational databases (SQL) and largescale backend operations.
• Hands on with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes) in production.
• Experience using version control (Git) and agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban) in global cross team environments.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving communication and influencing skills with the ability to engage with senior stakeholders and technical leaders.

Desirable Skills

• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and infrastructure automation (Terraform Ansible).
• Familiarity with data streaming/event driven architectures (Kafka Flink Pulsar) and high throughput systems.
• Mature experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins GitHub Actions) and micro frontend patterns.
• Strong testing & observability mindset (JUnit Jest Cypress) and performance optimisation.
• Prior experience in global engineering teams mentoring senior and principal engineers and setting engineering direction.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorshipcapable of guiding others to drive technical excellence and elevate team delivery.
• Strategic thinker with business-oriented mindset: engineering decisions aligned with product and company goals.
• Agile adaptable curiousthrives in fastmoving environments embraces change and champions continuous improvement.

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusionand 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 arent just words on paper this is what drives our innovation its 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.

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