Senior Java Developer

Description

Anaqua is seeking a Senior Java Developer to take ownership of core backend services on RightHub, our distributed, domain-driven Java platform on GCP. In this hands-on senior role, you will own services end-to-end, design domain events and service integrations, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. This role suits someone with strong distributed-systems instincts and a track record of mentoring.

You'll Love This Job If You Like To

• Own services end-to-end on a modern Java + Spring Boot platform — design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Design domain events and the integrations between services — event types, processors, idempotency, and eventual-consistency boundaries.
• Extend the shared platform libraries — auth, async tasks, common infrastructure — that every service in the company depends on.
• Write code that is genuinely tested — strong unit, integration, and contract testing as part of the development loop.
• Drive performance and reliability work, including query optimisation, debugging distributed flows, and capacity planning.
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, technical design docs, and mentoring mid-level engineers.
• Work across a modern stack: Java (latest LTS), Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), PostgreSQL with a domain-event model, and contract-first APIs with OpenAPI.
• Work closely with frontend engineers on the Next.js application when shipping features that cross the boundary.

What You'll Need To Be Successful

• 5+ years of senior-level Java engineering with proven production ownership of services real users depend on.
• Strong Spring Boot in production — fluent on transactional boundaries, connection pools, JVM tuning, and how things break under load.
• Distributed-systems thinking — async messaging, idempotency, retries, ordering, eventual consistency, and clean bounded contexts.
• Comfort with domain-driven design and event-sourcing patterns, designing domain events that capture state transitions.
• Contract-first API design with OpenAPI, deep PostgreSQL (schema design, indexing, migrations under load).
• Production experience running services on Kubernetes, with hands-on experience on a major public cloud (GCP preferred).
• Strong testing discipline and extensive experience converting business requirements to technical requirements.
• Track record of mentoring, raising the engineering bar, and excellent written and spoken English.
• Spring Cloud GCP/Pub/Sub/Cloud Run, reusable internal libraries, React/Next.js knowledge, or IP/legal-tech/regulated B2B SaaS exposure 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.