Job Description

Are you passionate about building large-scale, multi-tenant, cloud-native services? Do you thrive as part of a cross-functional team delivering solutions for mission-critical business needs? Do you have expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and modern front-end technologies for developing SaaS applications?

Join our highly collaborative Solution Engineering team, where you'll help build next-generation platforms and services using cutting-edge technologies.

What you would do:

• Design, develop, and operate cloud-native SaaS services

• Be hands-on with coding (expect 80%+ development time)

• Collaborate closely within small, empowered, cross-functional teams

• Thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment (e.g., TDD, BDD, pair programming)

• Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines, scalability, availability, and data security

• Triage and resolve code defects

• Prioritize code quality through comprehensive testing

• Demonstrate curiosity and a drive for continuous improvement

• Learn quickly and adapt in a dynamic environment

• Communicate clearly and effectively—defend ideas based on merit, while staying open and humble

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you would need to succeed:

• 8+ years of experience in full-stack software development

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field

• Proficiency in Java, Go, or Python

• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, multithreading, and AWS (or another public cloud)

• Hands-on experience with a modern client-side framework (React or Angular)

• Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

• Deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle); NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) is a plus

• Strong grasp of Agile development principles

• Experience designing RESTful or gRPC-based APIs

• Proven ability to build microservices on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Demonstrated ownership of features from design to release

• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to other engineers
  Commitment to maintaining a clean, healthy codebase

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform is a plus

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Bonus

• Prior experience with Event-Driven Architecture and Kafka on public cloud is a plus.

• Experience with TeamCity based CI/CD pipelines

• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Argo Workflows on Kubernetes is highly desirable

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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 www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

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 it's applicable to the position.