About this Software Engineer III role at Guidewire
Summary
Embark on a transformative career as a Guidewire Cloud Platform Software Engineer, where you will be at the forefront of revolutionizing how business leverage cloud technologies. We are seeking talented individuals to join our innovative team, where your expertise will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing robust cloud solutions.Guidewire provides outstanding software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We deliver the core applications that Property and Casualty (P/C) insurers use to build their products, sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. We deliver SaaS solutions via Guidewire Cloud that enable our customers to rapidly innovate and drive measurable value.
Job Description
- Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-56a0ff176032, https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-part-2-of-2-ba22c9888bb8
- Deeply involved in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS - infrastructure as code using technologies such as EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang. In addition handle Observability of the Platform (logs, metrics and traces). (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/log-management-and-guidewire-cloud-platform-observability-73a033a34e9a)
- Design and develop Platform services that solves problems such as Developer Experience, Authentication, Authorization using Java, Spring Boot
- Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code
- Employ TDD - Test driven development, to protect your products with the assurances of automated testing with Test first culture
- Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment
- Enjoy work as you solve problems daily by working with highly skilled team members in a pairing culture (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cloud-common-services-engineer-c67cf3debc57)
What you get to do :
Strong Programming and software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / Python / equivalent
- Container technologies: Docker / equivalent in a Cloud ecosystem
- Team first attitude, coupled with curiosity, high potential to learn new technologies and gain strong technical skills
- Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment
- 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 you should know about this role:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
- 5-8 years of work experience in a SaaS/PaaS environment for large-scale enterprise
- Advocate of cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)
- Prior experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot programming skills with Linux ecosystem
- 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.
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.
