Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Summary

Join Guidewire as a Senior Software Engineer, Application Platform, and be part of the team building our next-generation platform. This platform provides the essential tools, services, and infrastructure that power modern insurance applications. You will be a key contributor on this platform, using AI coding tools to design and build core services that power developer experience, ensuring quality, scalability, and security.

This is a senior, onsite, full-time role based in the United States.

You will play an important role in delivering operational excellence and transformative innovation for Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations (PDO) organization. Our priorities include accelerating cloud and data platform adoption, and ensuring our solutions deliver measurable value and efficiency for customers. At Guidewire, you’ll contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer‑centricity, helping transform the way the world’s P&C insurers do business.

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of Guidewire’s application platform, primarily focusing on backend services but with flexibility to occasionally work with infrastructure and frontend.
• Apply agentic coding tools and support Guidewire’s effort to dramatically accelerate development.
• Engineer for quality, scalability, availability, and security in every aspect of the platform.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient platform operations, supporting Guidewire’s mission of operational excellence and transformative innovation.
• Support and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a solid track record in system design and building platform services.
• Experience with coding agents and automation tools.
• Strong proficiency in one of Java, JavaScript, Type Script, Python, with ability to adjust to other languages.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.

• Flexible work environment
• Health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off programs, including volunteer time off
• Market‑competitive pay and incentive programs
• Continual development and internal career growth opportunities
• All new hires participate in our in‑person orientation process to ensure a strong start and connection to our culture.

Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to  If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case.

Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non‑selection for a vacancy, e‑mail  to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision‑maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

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.