Software Engineer - Guidewire Policy Center

Software Engineer - Guidewire Policy Center

Date:
Sep 14, 2026

Location:

Webster, MA, US

Company: MAPFRE

Build the Future of Insurance Technology

Mapfre is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Guidewire Policy Center and Policy Lifecycle engineering team. This role will contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of capabilities that enable quoting, underwriting, policy issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, reinstatements, and customer servicing.

The ideal candidate has a foundation in software engineering, an interest in Property and Casualty insurance technology, and a willingness to build expertise in Guidewire Policy Center and Guidewire Cloud. Prior Guidewire experience is preferred but not required for candidates with strong Java, object-oriented programming, configuration, integration, or enterprise application development experience.

You will work closely with experienced engineers, Product Managers, Architects, Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, and business partners to deliver secure, maintainable, and reliable policy administration solutions.

• Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support solutions within Guidewire Policy Center.
• Implement application changes using Gosu, Java, Policy Center configuration, business rules, entities, typelists, and PCF components.
• Contribute to capabilities supporting:
  • Product configuration and product model changes
  • Quote, bind, and policy issuance
  • Underwriting rules and referrals
  • Endorsements and policy changes
  • Renewals, rewrites, cancellations, and reinstatements
  • Policy servicing
  • Rating and premium-related integrations
  • Customer and agent servicing
  • Regulatory and state-specific requirements
• Develop and maintain integrations between Policy Center and internal or external systems.
• Follow established Guidewire development standards and upgrade-safe implementation patterns.

• Review user stories, acceptance criteria, technical requirements, and solution designs.
• Ask questions and identify gaps, dependencies, assumptions, and potential technical impacts.
• Break assigned work into development tasks and provide estimates with support from senior team members.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Complete assigned development work according to the team’s definition of done.
• Document technical changes, configuration decisions, dependencies, and operational considerations.
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers in a timely manner.

• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and testable code.
• Develop unit tests and support functional, automation, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate that implementations meet user-story acceptance criteria and technical requirements.
• Perform code reviews appropriate to experience level and incorporate feedback from senior engineers.
• Troubleshoot defects and determine whether issues originate in application configuration, custom code, integrations, data, or environment setup.
• Work with Quality Engineers to prepare test data, analyze failures, and resolve defects.
• Follow established coding standards, security requirements, quality gates, and source-control practices.

• Develop or support Policy Center integrations using REST APIs, messaging, events, files, and other approved integration patterns.
• Work with JSON, XML, and data mappings used in communication with internal and external systems.
• Support deployment validation and application testing in Guidewire Cloud environments.
• Assist with remediation work associated with Guidewire Cloud releases and platform updates.
• Learn and apply Guidewire Cloud development, deployment, testing, and operational practices.

• Monitor and support Policy Center applications and related integrations.
• Investigate application errors, failed transactions, integration issues, and unexpected business results.
• Review logs and available monitoring information to support troubleshooting.
• Participate in root-cause analysis with guidance from senior engineers.
• Implement defect fixes and preventive improvements.
• Support production releases, stabilization, and validation activities.
• Maintain support documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting information.
• Participate in an on-call or production-support rotation when required.

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