Anaqua

Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP

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5 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries, including authentication, asynchronous task, replication, and observability capabilities.
  • Shape company-wide standards and playbooks for service hosting, deployment, security, monitoring, and rollback.
  • Work on multi-region GCP infrastructure using GKE, global load balancing, autoscaling, Helm, and GitLab CI.
  • Contribute to gateway and edge security, API key and JWT issuance, dependency hygiene, secret management, and least-privilege IAM.
  • Design event-sourcing models, Pub/Sub topologies, schemas, service boundaries, and contract-first OpenAPI APIs.
  • Support production observability, distributed-flow debugging, incident response, and zero-downtime deployments.
  • Participate in design reviews, platform RFCs, documentation, runbooks, and architectural decisions.
  • Use AI tooling in development while maintaining appropriate secrets, audit trails, and data boundaries.

Requirements

  • Deep production Java experience with Spring Boot, including transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behavior under load, and production troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters consumed by other teams.
  • Strong infrastructure and DevOps experience on a major public cloud, preferably GCP, including production Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, multi-region deployments, autoscaling, and rollbacks.
  • Daily Terraform experience managing service modules, IAM, networking, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL.
  • Experience with hosting and application security, including gateway and edge policies, secret management, dependency scanning, and IAM hygiene.
  • Deep PostgreSQL experience with schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under load, and JSONB-heavy data modeling.
  • Experience designing event-sourced systems and asynchronous messaging with idempotency and ordering considerations.
  • Experience with contract-first APIs using OpenAPI and production observability and incident response on GCP.
  • Strong unit and integration testing practices using real PostgreSQL and Pub/Sub dependencies.
  • Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to document designs, RFCs, and operational procedures.
  • Preferred qualifications include GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification or equivalent, gRPC, Envoy, GKE Gateway API, internal developer platform or golden-path experience, React or Next.js knowledge, and experience in IP management, legal-tech, or regulated B2B SaaS.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCHelmJavaKubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLReactSpring BootTerraform

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About Anaqua

501-1,000 employees

Anaqua builds SaaS platforms for intellectual property and trademark management used by global corporations and law firms, covering docketing, portfolio analytics, and annuity services. Its products—AQX, RightHub, and PATTSY WAVE—support end-to-end IP workflows and integrations across patents and trademarks. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company operates worldwide and generates revenue through enterprise software subscriptions and related managed services.

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