Senior Backend 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 Linked In 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!

Youll join the Platform & AI Enablement team within our GPTO Engineering organization as part of the Data Orchestration domain. The team is responsible for building core capabilities that power our data and AI infrastructure enabling scalable resilient and intelligent systems to support enterprise‑scale Business Planning Software solutions.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with deep experience in Java/Kotlin and ideally a strong background in Identity Provider integrations. You will design and build services that integrate with third‑party identity providers manage multi‑tenant access patterns through APIs and contribute to the long‑term strategy of how platform interacts securely with customers and external products.

This role requires strong systems thinking hands‑on engineering ability and the experience to guide architectural decisions that keep our platform robust trustworthy and enterprise‑grade.

• Design and implement secure backend services using Java or Kotlin with a focus on authentication authorization and cross‑system integrations
• Lead the architecture for identity and access integrations including OAuth2/OIDC SCIM SAML and certificate‑based access patterns
• Develop and operate features for authorization using policy engines like Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego‑based policy evaluation
• Contribute to the strategy of platform‑wide security patterns for multi‑tenant isolation key lifecycle management token issuance secrets handling and secure API‑to‑API communication (the glue to the platform)
• Mentor and guide other engineers promoting secure coding practices and elevating the maturity of the engineering organization

• Backend development experience in Java or Kotlin
• Experience with OAuth2 OIDC JWT SAML and modern identity protocols is a distinct advantage
• Hands‑on experience integrating with enterprise identity providers (Okta Auth0 Ping Entra Forge Rock etc.)
• Experience with multi‑tenant architectures isolation strategies and developing secure APIs for B2B SaaS products
• Exposure to Open Policy Agent Rego and runtime authorization systems
• Strong grasp of core engineering fundamentals: concurrency resilient systems distributed systems concepts and performance tuning
• Experience with API security:
  Personal Access Tokens API keys signature schemes rate limiting and revocation flows
• Ability to work end‑to‑end across design implementation testing and deployment

• Experience working in international and distributed teams
• Familiarity with cloud‑agnostic architectures
• Exposure to observability tools and practices
• Experience contributing to long‑term technology strategy

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