Senior Application Engineer - AI (Python, FastAPI & LLM)

FHLB Des Moines; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidewire in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Applicaton Engineer to join our Professional Services AI Engineering team. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, building REST APIs, frontend wiring, and AI components with Claude Code and Copilot, on AWS Bedrock.

You will mentor teammates and shape design decisions with the Platform Architect and AI Architect, ensuring production-grade, scalable AI features for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of software engineering experience with backend or full-stack production development.
• Strong Python expertise with production-grade tooling and async programming.
• Experience building REST APIs and data modeling for SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Frontend wiring experience (React or equivalent) to connect UI with APIs.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration and AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end feature delivery on high-complexity AI projects.
• Develop REST APIs, frontend wiring, and integration with AI components.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers to deploy LLM-based features to production.
• Maintain code quality, tests, observability, and performance.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Pydantic

pytest

REST API design

Database modeling

Frontend wiring

React

LLM/APIs

Claude Code

Copilot

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Summary

Guidewire is seeking a Senior Applicaton Engineer to join our Professional Services AI Engineering team in Bangalore. In our Core & Satellite model, you will work on the development side of our Strike Teams — reporting to the Engineering Manager and pairing with a Senior AI Engineer to deliver production‑grade, customer‑facing AI features end‑to‑end. This is a hands‑on senior engineering role. You own the dev work for your features end‑to‑end, build using AI coding tools like Claude Code, and operate inside platform blueprints set by the Platform Architect, AI Architect, and QA Architect — so you can focus on shipping the product rather than re‑inventing infrastructure.

Job Description

End‑to‑End Feature Delivery

Own the dev work on a Strike Team — REST APIs, frontend wiring, feature logic, and integration with AI components — for one high‑complexity or strategic AI productization project at a time.

Technical Execution

Make day‑to‑day implementation calls, contribute to design reviews, and make sound trade‑off decisions on your features; elevate cross‑cutting concerns to the Engineering Manager.

AI Integration

Partner with your AI Engineer to bring LLM‑based components into production paths — prompt invocation, response handling, fallbacks, observability — running on AWS Bedrock. You'll shape how these components are integrated, collaborate on the design decisions that affect the product, and bring the AI Architect in on the deeper algorithmic calls.

Platform & Standards Consumption

Build on top of the team's shared CI/CD, vector DB, auth, QA, and UI/UX foundations. Push back to the horizontal layer when something is missing or wrong.

Code Quality & Mentorship

Set a high bar for code review, testing, and engineering hygiene through your own work. Mentor the Consultant Product Engineer and the AI pairing partners.

AI‑Native Development

Leverage AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot) to accelerate delivery while maintaining a high quality bar.

KPIs & Success Metrics

• End‑to‑end delivery of high‑complexity or strategic projects on schedule.
• Quality bar upheld: review standards, test coverage, and observability for owned features.
• Reliable AI integration — LLM‑backed paths with sound fallbacks and acceptable latency.
• Mentorship impact: growth of the Consultant Product Engineer and AI pairing partners.
• Platform feedback loop: gaps surfaced and resolved with the horizontal teams.

Experience

• 5‑8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend or full‑stack production development.

Technical Proficiency

• Expert‑level skills in Python and the surrounding production ecosystem (async, FastAPI, Pydantic, pytest).
• Experience with Java or TypeScript is useful, though Python is strongly preferred.
• Strong REST API design experience, database modeling (SQL and at least one NoSQL store), and event‑driven patterns.
• Working knowledge of frontend frameworks (React or equivalent) sufficient to wire UI components into your APIs.
• Working understanding of LLM APIs and how AI features are integrated — prompt invocation, streaming, retries, fallbacks.
• You’ll partner with AI specialists on the modeling and data‑science work, contributing to the integration design and knowing when to bring in the AI Architect.
• Experience with coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot).

Domain Context

(Preferred) Experience with enterprise software, regulated industries, or multi‑tenant SaaS.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Guidewire Knowledge:Prior experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite or Guidewire Cloud is a significant plus.
• Team Leadership:Prior experience leading small teams or owning a feature area end‑to‑end.

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.

We’re an extraordinary blend of hungry self‑starters, intrepid explorers, brainy experts, and loyal allies. Combine all of this, and we make a glorious success story, loaded with down‑to‑earth, helpful, and passionate people, all on the journey of cloud innovation and best in class technology. Guidewire’s an adventure—and it’s yours for the taking. At Guidewire, we are utterly committed to customer success. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service to the P&C Insurance industry. And with the largest R&D team, services team, and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continually evolve and innovate to meet our customers’ needs. We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness that our people never want to lose. And we each bring a little quirkiness—and a little genius—to the table. As the landscape of our industry continues to shift, we respond with flexibility and skill. We’re braving uncharted territory, pushing past the conventional with our products, partners, and people.