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Senior Platform Engineer — Java + GCP Join the platform team that owns the foundations the rest of engineering builds on. Position Overview: Anaqua is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our platform team. Together with the team you will build the shared microservices and Spring Boot libraries every product team consumes, help shape company-wide standards for hosting, application security, deployment and monitoring, and contribute to the multi-region high-availability story for the new Anaqua / RightHub stack on GCP. Hands-on Java. Hands-on infra. Senior individual contributor — not a lead or manager role. You'll love this job if you like to: • Build shared Spring Boot services and libraries with the team — 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 alongside the team on multi-region GCP — 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 — and document them so the rest of engineering can follow. • Show up for design reviews and platform RFCs alongside the rest of the team. What you will need to be successful • Deep production Java with Spring Boot — comfortable with transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM behaviour under load and how things actually break in production. • Hands-on experience building shared platform libraries or Spring Boot starters that other teams consume — this is the headline ask. • Strong infrastructure and DevOps chops on a major public cloud (GCP preferred) — Kubernetes in production (GKE), Helm, multi-region deploys, autoscaling, rollbacks. • Terraform as a daily tool — modules per service, IAM, networking, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL. • Hosting and application security ownership — gateway and edge policies, secret management, dependency scanning, IAM hygiene. • PostgreSQL depth — schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under load, JSONB-heavy data modelling. • Event sourcing and asynchronous messaging — designing aggregates and events, integrating services via GCP Pub/Sub, idempotency and ordering. • Contract-first APIs with OpenAPI — the schema is the source of truth. • Production observability and incident response on GCP — structured logging, alerting, debugging distributed flows. • Strong testing discipline — unit and integration tests against real Postgres and Pub/Sub as part of normal development. • Excellent written and spoken English. AI-first mindset • Treats AI tooling as a daily collaborator, not a gimmick — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot in the dev loop. • Designs platform contracts (OpenAPI, typed events, structured logs) so AI agents and humans can both work against them. • Has a view on AI in the SDLC — agent-assisted code review, AI-generated runbooks, codegen scaffolding. • Sensible about secrets, audit trails and data boundaries when AI integrations touch internal systems. Professional skills and mindset • End-to-end on your work — designs, ships, monitors and debugs. • Writes — design docs, RFCs, runbooks. Decisions get documented, not just made. • Pragmatic — ships value before perfect abstractions. • Raises the bar with peers, not by gate-keeping; happy to share knowledge across the team. • Comfortable making calls under ambiguity and changing them when the data says so. • Strong customer and business empathy — connects platform work back to product impact. • Plays well in a small senior team — opinions held lightly, decisions made together. A plus, not required • GCP Professional Cloud Architect (or equivalent) certification. • gRPC, Envoy or GKE Gateway API experience. • Experience working on an internal developer platform or “golden path” for service teams. • React or Next.js working knowledge for occasional cross-stack work. • Background in IP management, legal-tech or regulated B2B SaaS.