Staff Software Engineer - Application Platform

Summary

Join Guidewire as a Staff 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 technical leader 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 a pivotal 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.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead 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 as Guidewire uses them 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.

• Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a strong track record in system design and building core platform services.

• Experience with coding agents and automation tools.

• Deep expertise in one of Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, but able to quickly adjust to other languages.

• Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems at scale.

• Excellent collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.

• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.

How You Contribute to Guidewire's Mission

At Guidewire, you will help deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions that empower P&C insurers worldwide. Your work will directly support our mission to deliver measurable value and efficiency for customers, drive cloud adoption, and ensure every customer is successful and referenceable. You'll be part of a team that values determination, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and you'll help shape the future of insurance technology.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll collaborate with talented engineers to deliver secure, scalable backend services, accelerate AI and cloud adoption, and contribute to new product launches. Your work will drive measurable outcomes—improving platform reliability, security, and customer value—while supporting Guidewire’s mission to transform the insurance industry. Over time, your contributions will influence our technology direction and help shape the future of P&C insurance worldwide.

What’s in it for you

The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as:

• 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $169,000 - $253,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

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.

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.