Backend Python Engineer
Anaplan
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- Why do you want to join Anaplan?
- What is your experience with Python? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
- Describe a time a deadline forced a trade-off in quality. What did you choose and why?
- How would you design an API for a feature you have worked on?
- What do you do when a production issue happens on your code?
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Practise the Backend Python Engineer at Anaplan interview free →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!
We are looking for a Backend Python Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on development experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs. The ideal candidate should have strong Python fundamentals, experience building production-grade backend applications, and a good understanding of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python.
- Build and maintain REST APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Write clean, modular, maintainable, and well-tested production code.
- Design and optimize database interactions using PostgreSQL/MySQL or similar relational databases.
- Work with asynchronous programming, background jobs, queues, and caching where required.
- Troubleshoot application performance, API latency, memory, and production issues.
- Implement authentication, authorization, API security, logging, and error handling.
- Containerize applications using Docker.
- Work with CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment.
- Deploy and support applications in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
- Understand and work with Linux environments, networking, environment configuration, and application monitoring.
- Collaborate with frontend developers, architects, QA, and DevOps teams.
Backend
- 3+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on Python expertise.
- Strong understanding of OOP, data structures, exception handling, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
- Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Strong understanding of REST API design and development.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar databases.
- Understanding of database design, indexing, transactions, and query optimization.
- Experience with Git and standard software development practices.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests using tools such as pytest.
- Good understanding of Docker and containerized deployments.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
- Comfortable working with Linux and basic shell commands.
- Understanding of cloud concepts including VMs, networking, load balancers, storage, and security.
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes is desirable.
- Understanding of application monitoring, centralized logging, and troubleshooting production deployments.
- Experience with Redis and message queues/background workers such as Celery.
- Experience building high-concurrency or asynchronous applications.
- Knowledge of Nginx/reverse proxies and API gateways.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP.
- Exposure to LLM/Generative AI APIs and integrating AI services with backend applications would be an advantage.
The candidate should be a strong hands-on engineer who can take ownership of a backend service from development → testing → containerization → deployment → production troubleshooting.
We value candidates who understand not only how to write Python code, but also how that code runs reliably and securely in a production environment.
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.
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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.
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