Senior Platform Engineer (Java + GCP)

Anaqua is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our platform team, building the shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries every product team relies on. In this hands-on senior individual contributor role, you will help shape company-wide standards for hosting, security, deployment and monitoring, and contribute to the multi-region, high-availability architecture of our GCP-based platform. This is Java and infrastructure work, not a lead or management role.

You'll Love This Job if You Like To:
- Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries — auth, async tasks, replication, observability defaults — that every product team builds on top of.
- Help shape the company-wide playbook for how services get deployed, secured, monitored and rolled back.
- Work on multi-region GCP infrastructure — GKE, global load balancing, autoscaling, zero-downtime deploys with Helm and GitLab CI.
- Contribute to edge and application security — gateway policies, API key and JWT issuance, dependency hygiene, GCP IAM least-privilege.
- Take part in architectural decisions on event sourcing, Pub/Sub topology, schema design and service boundaries, documenting them for the wider team.
- Use AI tooling as a daily collaborator, designing platform contracts that both humans and AI agents can work against.

- Write design docs, RFCs and runbooks, raising the engineering bar through knowledge-sharing rather than gate-keeping.
- Participate in design reviews and platform RFCs, connecting platform work back to product impact.

What You'll Need To Be Successful:
- Deep production Java with Spring Boot — comfortable with transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behaviour under load, and how things break in production.
- Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters consumed by other teams — the headline ask for this role.
- Strong infrastructure and DevOps experience on a major public cloud (GCP preferred) — Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling, rollbacks.
- Terraform as a daily tool, and PostgreSQL depth — schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under load.
- Event sourcing and asynchronous messaging experience, with contract-first API design using OpenAPI.
- Production observability and incident response on GCP, backed by strong testing discipline across unit and integration tests.

- Excellent written and spoken English, with strong customer and business empathy.
- GCP certification, gRPC/Envoy experience, internal developer platform experience, React/Next.js knowledge, or a background in IP/legal-tech/regulated B2B SaaS all an advantage.

Anaqua, Inc. is a premium provider of integrated intellectual property (IP) management technology solutions and services. Anaqua’s AQX platform combines best practice workflows with big data analytics and tech-enabled services to create an intelligent environment designed to inform IP strategy, enable IP decision-making, and streamline IP operations. Today, nearly half of the top 100 U.S. patent filers and global brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide use Anaqua’s solutions. Over one million IP executives, attorneys, paralegals, administrators, and innovators in large and medium-sized companies use the platform for their IP management needs. The company’s global operations are headquartered in Boston, with offices across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. For additional information, please visit anaqua.com, or on LinkedIn.