Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Application Development

Summary

Guidewire’s Product Development and Operations team is searching for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Senior Software Engineer to build sophisticated solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry’s complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. The ideal engineer for this role will be enthusiastic, passionate about building high-quality software with a phenomenal team, and dedicated to improving the customer experience for millions of people who use our products every day.

You will have the opportunity to make an impact and contribute to a complex application suite of products that generate over 500 million dollars of revenue annually, mission-critical to 400+ enterprises serving more than a million users. Guidewire provides outstanding software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We deliver the core applications that Property and Casualty (P/C) insurers use to build their products, sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. The SaaS solutions delivered via Guidewire Cloud enable our customers to rapidly innovate and drive measurable value. Guidewire Cloud is powered by the highly resilient Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, with SLAs backed by experienced Guidewire teams and SaaS-certified partners spanning application management, system administration, security and compliance, upgrades, QA testing, health checks, and other services.
The successful candidate will work on the entire technology stack, from the core persistence layer through to the Web Application front ends, and will collaborate both with technical teams as well as customer-facing ones to drive quality business outcomes.

Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You must be a self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision while working alongside intelligent colleagues who’ve checked their egos at the door in a team environment, communicating effectively with everyone. Furthermore, you must be comfortable acting as a mentor for more junior engineers on your team — leading the team in architecture, design, and code review work, identifying gaps in processes and correcting them, holding team members accountable in a clear and kind way, and fostering a culture where colleagues feel comfortable to openly share opinions. We’ve built a strong culture, and we’re looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.

Job Description

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have:

• Enjoy working collaboratively in an empowered, small, cross-functional team
• Experience working in an agile and fast paced development environment (e.g. TDD, BDD, Agile, pair programming, etc.)
• A passion for code quality demonstrated by thorough testing
• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code
• Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly improve
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
• Excellent communication skills, comfort level to speak their mind and defend ideas based on merit, yet humility and hunger to learn from others.

Key qualifications include experience with:

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong experience working on large scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Core Java and solid understanding of JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS
• Solid understanding of effective Agentic AI development patterns, particularly how to maximize the benefits of AI adoption while managing costs
• Technical design and leadership of features from inception to release
• Mentoring less experienced engineers
• Maintaining and promoting a healthy codebase and ensuring high quality of products.
• Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles
• Understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle)
• Familiarity with Agile development practices
• Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs
• Familiarity with Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Unit/Integration Testing, etc
• Experience building secure software and knowledge of security practices
• Experience working with Open-Source frameworks (e.g. Spring, Jersey, Drools, others)
• Cloud Services (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with a market leading client-side framework (e.g. React, Angular) is plus.
• NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus
• Insurance or financial services industry experience is a plus
• A typical candidate has a Computer Sci…