About the role

Software Engineer developing and scaling a platform at Guidewire. Collaborating with teams to improve system performance and reliability with a focus on clean code and best practices.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship well-tested, high-quality code across both front-end and back-end services.
Design and implement new platform capabilities and continuously improve existing systems.
Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability as our customer base and data volumes grow.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and observability to support rapid and safe iteration.
Review code and collaborate with team members to elevate engineering quality across the team.
Actively contribute to our engineering culture through shared learning, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

5+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating SaaS or enterprise web applications in production environments.
Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with experience working across modern web stacks.
Hands-on experience building and operating platform software using Kubernetes, and cloud-native services, ideally on AWS.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and observability tooling.
Deep commitment to software engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, and clean, maintainable code.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
A continuous-learning mindset and curiosity to evaluate and adopt new tools or technologies when they deliver meaningful value.
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.
We value engineers who take ownership, collaborate openly, and are motivated by building systems that make a real impact for users.