About the Role
Guidewire is seeking a Software Engineer II to develop elegant solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry. This role involves using AI-native coding approaches and AI-assisted tools to build, refactor, and extend services, supporting the mission to embed GenAI across products and improve operational excellence. The team is lean, empowered, and collaborative, fostering a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible AI use.
Responsibilities
- Build, refactor, and extend services using AI-native coding approaches and AI-assisted tools.
- Support the mission to embed GenAI across products, improve operational excellence, and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable cloud services.
- Collaborate in an empowered, small, cross-functional team.
- Work in an agile and fast-paced development environment.
- Demonstrate passion for code quality through thorough testing.
- Be hands-on in designing and writing code.
- Embrace AI and apply it to the role, alongside data-driven insights, to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
- Learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
- Communicate effectively, speak their mind, and defend ideas based on merit.
- Learn from others with humility.
Requirements
- Minimum 2+ years of Software Development experience, preferably in SaaS or cloud solutions.
- Proficiency in Core Java and good working knowledge of the Spring framework.
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
- Experience building microservices on cloud service platforms (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure) – AWS preferred.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
- Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs.
- Ability to use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development while exercising strong judgment around code quality, testing, and security.
- Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles.
- Understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle); familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus.
- Great understanding of CI/CD and DevOps principles; experience with related tools such as TeamCity, Git-based workflows, or Kubernetes is a definite plus.
- Experience with LLMs, LangChain, and/or AI patterns such as RAG or ReAct is a plus.
- Exposure to AI/ML development patterns such as prompt engineering or integrating AI services into production systems is a plus.
Skills
- AI-native coding approaches
- AI-assisted tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)
- Core Java
- Spring framework
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Microservices development
- Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- REST API design
- gRPC API design
- Object-Oriented Design
- Relational database persistence (MySQL, Oracle)
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, CouchDB)
- CI/CD
- DevOps principles
- TeamCity
- Git-based workflows
- LLMs
- LangChain
- RAG
- ReAct
- Prompt engineering
- Integrating AI services
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- Software Engineer II
- Minimum 2+ years of Software Development experience
Education Level
- BS/MS degree (Computer Science or related field)
Salary/Compensations
- $86,000 - $108,000
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Company sponsored retirement plan
- Annual company bonus plan (contingent on factors)
- Commissions (contingent on factors)
- Long term incentive awards (contingent on factors)
About the Company
- 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.
- We are a partner to our customers, continually evolving to enable their success.
- We have an 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.
- We foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.
- We are an extraordinary blend of hungry self-starters, intrepid explorers, brainy experts, and loyal allies.
- We are utterly committed to customer success.
- We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness.
- We respond to industry shifts with flexibility and skill, pushing past the conventional with our products, partners, and people.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
