Senior Software Engineer - Application Platform

Guidewire; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off

Market-competitive pay and incentive

Continual development and internal成长

Job summary

Guidewire is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Application Platform to help build the next-generation platform powering insurance applications. You will contribute to backend services, leverage AI coding tools, and ensure quality, scalability, and security in a senior, onsite role based in the United States.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and support operational excellence as part of Guidewire's PDO organization, driving cloud adoption and measurable customer value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience with coding agents and automation tools.
• Proficiency in Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Python.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of Guidewire's application platform.
• Apply agentic coding tools and accelerate development.
• Engineer for quality, scalability, availability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable platform operations.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement.

Skills

Backend software engineering

System design

APIs & microservices

AI coding tools

Programming languages

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Summary Join Guidewire as a Senior 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 key contributor 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 an important 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

• Contribute to 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 and support Guidewire's effort 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.
• Support and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a solid track record in system design and building platform services.
• Experience with coding agents and automation tools.
• Strong proficiency in one of Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, with ability to adjust to other languages.
• Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication 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 AI and 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

• 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 $160,000 - $271,000.

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.

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.

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. Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at [e-mail], our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.

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.