Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with platform and product stakeholders—such as Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering Managers—to define and groom backlogs and direct platform and product evolution.

• Work on the design and delivery of complex features and services using agile methodologies with an emphasis on delivering functionality that is secure, performant, and reliable.

• Motivate peers and more junior engineers to reach outstanding levels of software delivery

• Mentor peers and more junior engineers in design, code, and software delivery best practice

• Define new processes to support engineering excellence as well as highlight and patch gaps in existing processes, e.g. research, champion, and implement new testing tools and techniques

• Define organizational best practices and standards with senior engineers

• Live our core values of rationality, collegiality, and integrity.

• At Guidewire, 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.

What We’re Looking For:

• Core Java expertise (three years’ experience minimum in a professional engineering role)

• History of outstanding software delivery

• Proficiency in industry design patterns

• Proven ability to design a complex feature or service with a small, empowered, cross-functional team

• Expert in developing and delivering features using agile development practices (Scrum, TDD, pair programming, etc.)

• Practiced in continuous integration and continuous delivery and expert user of supporting build and code management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, JUnit, Karate, TestCafe, JaCoCo, SonarQube)

• Good working knowledge of other programming and scripting languages (Kotlin, Python, bash)

• Capacity to quickly learn new technologies and understand their applications to engineering problems

• Strong leadership skills: can motivate others, hold them accountable with compassion, and mentor them—both synchronously and asynchronously—in system design, code quality, and operational excellence

• Experience designing and incrementally improving processes for continuous software delivery

• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills

• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code

• Curiosity and an internal drive to learn and constantly improve

• Experience creating web services (SOAP, REST)

• Experience with cloud services a bonus, e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

• 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

Successful candidates rarely have every single thing we’re looking for. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our hiring team to assess your application.