Senior Software Engineer (Java backend, Cloud architecture)

India - Bangalore

Product Development and Operations/Full time/Hybrid

Guidewire provides the industry platform that P&C insurers rely on to adapt and succeed in a time of accelerating change. We deliver software, services, and a partner ecosystem that help insurers run, differentiate, and grow their business.
InsuranceNow is an all-in-one, cloud-based platform that unifies software, services, and ecosystem partners to power our customers’ businesses. It provides core insurance capabilities such as policy, claims, and billing management, as well as analytics, reporting, and digital experiences.

You will be part of the team that is scaling InsuranceNow to serve a growing roster of Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers around the world, helping them launch new products faster, develop AI capabilities and scale their operations with confidence.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer at our Bengaluru office with strong Java skills to design and build scalable, cloud-native solutions for Guidewire’s InsuranceNow product. You will help evolve a successful product to its next-generation cloud architecture and scale it to more Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurance companies across the globe, enabling them to set up and grow their insurance businesses efficiently and reliably. This is a senior individual contributor role within Guidewire’s Product Development organization.

Job Description

What you will do:

• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and senior engineering leadership across Product Development and Cloud Operations to design and deliver product features.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native services and integrations for InsuranceNow, with a strong focus on Java-based solutions.
• Lead the architecture and development of integrations between InsuranceNow and third-party systems commonly used in the insurance industry.
• Design systems that can scale horizontally to support more Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers, with clear focus on performance, resilience, observability, and operability.
• Apply cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (primarily on AWS; Azure or GCP experience also welcome) to build robust, automated environments.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for your services, ensuring high-quality, low-friction deployments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage cloud resources in a repeatable and auditable way.
• Troubleshoot complex production and pre-production issues across application, infrastructure, and data layers using strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Follow and improve secure SDLC practices in partnership with InfoSec and other stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor other engineers, providing technical leadership and helping the team deliver high-quality outcomes.

What you bring:

• 8+ years of overall software or infrastructure development experience, including at least 3 years building applications on cloud architectures.
• Strong, hands-on experience with Java for backend application development, including object-oriented design and clean code practices.
• Experience designing and building distributed systems and services, ideally with microservices or event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience with at least one major cloud provider; AWS is highly preferred, but Azure or Google Cloud experience is also valuable.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native concepts such as zero-downtime deployments, blue/green or canary releases, and promotion of code from QA to staging to production.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or non-relational databases and how to model, query, and tune them for scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation; experience with Chef, Ansible, or Puppet is also acceptable.
• Demonstrated ability to design systems for scale, performance, reliability, and maintainability, especially in multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Proven logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex issues across multiple technical layers.
• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies.
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies and work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to mentor others and provide technical leadership within an engineering team.

Bonus Skills

• Experience building enterprise-grade integrations, includi…