Senior Manager, Software Engineering-Tokyo

Are you ready to move insurance to the 21st century?

At Guidewire, we are building A SaaS Insurance Platform built on top of the public cloud leader Cloud-native microservices A marketplace for third party application developers.

We are expanding our Japan Regional Development Centre, which has built market-leading products for the Japanese general insurance market for over a decade.

We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to join us on this journey!You will have the opportunity to impact and contribute to a complex application suite of products that generate over 500 million dollars of revenue annually, mission-critical to 100+ enterprises, and serving more than a million users.As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Guidewire you will be hands-on, as you empower, and support between 3 to 6 self-sufficient teams.

The day-to-day:

• Govern the application development activities of multiple agile/scrum teams for the world’s leading Insurance Platform.
• Coordinate the design, analysis, development, debugging, and improvement of Guidewire’s insurance products in the world market.
• Attract, retain, develop, and motivate top-notch engineering talent.
• Ensure effective collaboration and communication within the team and teams and with peers and stakeholders across the organisation.
• Mentor your team members, including assisting them with career growth and personal development.
• Collaborate with other managers and teams to execute the roadmap and ensure the successful delivery of our insurance products.
• Trust your team, and be trusted by your manager and colleagues to make good decisions.
• Proactively communicate with senior leadership and drive change.

What skills or experience do I need to have?

• 10+ years of software development experience, especially in SaaS and/or PaaS
• 4+ years of proven experience in managing software engineers, including performance and career management
• 2+ years of leading and managing multiple Agile/Scrum teams in software product development
• Business-level proficiency in English and Japanese, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A ceaseless desire to improve how things get done, a strong promoter of automationFluency in one of the object-oriented languages such as Java, Go, C#, etc.
• An advocate of DDD, BDD, TDD, and API-first design
• Understanding of cloud services and architecture like Docker, K8s
• Mentoring others on technical topics and processes
• Leading projects from inception to completion with collaboration across teams
• Risk mitigation and handling dependencies
• A calm, rational demeanour under pressure. Having a sense of humour helps!

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. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

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