Senior Software Engineer Full Stack Application Development

Summary

Senior Software Engineer (P4) - Application Development
Guidewires 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 industrys 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 whove 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. Weve built a strong culture and were looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.

Job Description

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 Science degree or equivalent

Your Impact
We believe in clarity and setting you up for your first six months youll lead key architectural initiatives mentor team members and deliver high-impact features that align with our product and business goals. Your work will drive measurable improvements in system scalability reliability and user experience directly supporting Guidewires mission to empower insurers worldwide. Over time your influence will extend across teams shaping the future of our technology and the broader insurance industry.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage innovate and grow efficiently. We combine digital core analytics and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540 insurers in 40 countries from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600 successful projects supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration localization and innovation.

For more information please visit and follow us on Twitter: @GuidewirePandC.

Guidewire Software Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and believe that a diversity of perspectives abilities and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color ancestry religion sex national origin citizenship marital status age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where its applicable to the position.