About the Role
As a Senior Full‑Stack Software Engineer, you will design and build high‑impact capabilities for insurance content transformation and modeling, advancing Guidewire’s shift toward AI‑driven development and highly scalable SaaS solutions. You’ll combine deep engineering craft with AI‑native coding approaches to extend complex systems quickly and safely, helping deliver secure, reliable cloud services at scale. Your work will directly support PDO’s mission to embed GenAI across our products and improve operational excellence, contributing to Guidewire’s broader goal of transforming how the world’s P&C insurers do business through our cloud platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain full‑stack capabilities for APD and insurance content transformation.
- Implement robust, scalable microservices and APIs in Java on AWS, using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Develop intuitive, performant front‑end experiences using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
- Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to rapidly generate, refactor, and extend code.
- Apply enterprise architecture and software design patterns to evolve systems for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Collaborate closely with product management, architects, and fellow engineers in an agile environment.
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD, DevOps, and testing practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in SaaS or cloud-based products.
- Strong proficiency in core Java, with experience building and maintaining production microservices on a major cloud platform (preferably AWS).
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript or TypeScript on the front end; experience with Python is a plus.
- Solid understanding of common enterprise architectural and software design patterns, and proven experience applying them in real-world SaaS applications.
- Practical experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices and tools.
- Proven ability to use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development while exercising strong judgment around code quality, testing, and security.
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to share and defend ideas based on technical merit, and the humility and curiosity to learn from peers.
- Experience in the property & casualty insurance domain, financial services, or other complex, highly regulated business domains.
- Experience with business rules engines or decision modeling, particularly DMN FEEL.
- Background in AI/ML development patterns, including prompt engineering, model tuning, or integrating AI services into production systems.
- Prior work on configuration or modeling platforms, low-code/no-code tools, or developer/productivity platforms.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Java
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- TeamCity
- AI-assisted coding tools
- Prompt engineering
- Model tuning
- AI services integration
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
Education Level
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 135,000.00 - 169,000.00
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Hybrid setup
- 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, including upskilling in AI, cloud, and modern engineering practices
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Company sponsored retirement plan
- Annual company bonus plan
- Commissions
- Long term incentive awards
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.
- 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.
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.
