Senior Software Engineer (Java backend, Cloud architecture)

Summary

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 including APIs events and messaging-based systems.

• Familiarity with API design (REST event-based) and experience consuming or exposing business/application events.

• Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. SSO OAuth SAML role-based access control).

• Experience in the P&C insurance domain or other complex highly regulated industries.

How we work:
We are guided by three core values: Collegiality Integrity and Rationality.

• Collegiality: We value strong teams and professional equality. We work together respectfully welcome contrary opinions and continuously improve our processes while maintaining a sustainable worklife balance.

• Integrity: We insist on truthful transparent relationships with customers partners investors and each other in everything we do.

• Rationality: We communicate through clear arguments and make decisions based on factual evidence. We prefer calm systematic thoughtful solutions believe in testing and constantly look for ways to improve how we build software.

If you are passionate about building scalable Java-based cloud systems enjoy solving complex problems and want to help Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers modernize and scale their businesses we would love to hear from you.

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.