Senior Software Engineer ,Tech Lead

Guidewire's development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead to build elegant solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry's complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. The team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer who is passionate about building high-quality software with a great team and improving the customer experience for millions of people who use our products everyday.

The team you will be joining focuses on building applications for U.S. Commercial insurers, which requires large scale data volumes, heavy server load, and complex business logic. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, serving as the technical lead for an agile and cross-functional team of 4-5 Software Engineers. You will frequently work with Product Managers, Team Leads, and Engineers from other teams, formulate technical requirements for other products and/or services, and help resolve dependencies to unblock your and/or other teams. 

Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You must be a self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision while working alongside intelligent colleagues who've checked their egos at the door in a team environment, communicating effectively with everyone. We've built a strong culture, and we're looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have:

• A desire to work collaboratively in an empowered, small, cross-functional team.
• Experience working in an agile and fast-paced development environment (e.g. TDD, BDD, Agile, pair programming, etc.)
• A passion for code quality demonstrated by thorough testing.
• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code.
• Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly improve.
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills, comfort level to speak their mind and defend ideas based on merit, yet humility and hunger to learn from others

Key qualifications include experience with:

• Proficiency in Core Java and good working knowledge of JavaScript.
• Great understanding of CI/CD and DevOps principles; experience with related languages or frameworks such as TeamCity or Kubernetes is a definite plus.
• In-depth knowledge of Object-Oriented Design design principles.
• Experience leading a team of software engineers on design/implementation, best development practices, as well as agile methodologies.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers is a definite plus.
• Understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus.
• Excellent understanding of Agile development principles.
• Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs.
• Experience building microservices on cloud service platforms (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Technical design and leadership of features from inception to release.
• Technical leadership experience in mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Maintaining and promoting a healthy codebase and ensuring high-quality products.
• BS/MS degree (Computer Science or related field).
• Minimum 7+ years of Software Development experience, with 1+ years of team leadership experience

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.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected] 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.