Software Engineer II

Summary

Guidewire's development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Software Engineer to build sophisticated solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry's challenging business domain and enhance our industry-leading products.

You will have the chance to create impact and contribute to a complex application suite of products as we are serving more than 350 companies in 32 countries.

Our software supports significant data volumes and heavy loads. Our platform includes a cluster-safe persistence layer, inter-application messaging architecture, an MVC Web layer, and a lot more.

You will be part of our Product Development organisation, working on products and solutions that enable in-market authorities, regulatory bodies, institutions, third parties, partners and insurers to more readily integrate their insurance processes and 3rd party services to the full suite of Guidewire Software Products.

You'll work alongside inspiring colleagues whom you can rely on for support. Teamwork is very important to us and we are looking for engineers who share knowledge, actively listen to understand different perspectives, are meticulous and work as a unit with the wider team to solve sophisticated challenges.

You will attend training from day one, learning about our solutions and the business, as every day can be different, from development to deployment, quarterly planning, and daily standups.

Job Description

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Learn about our business and technical problems in Global Market Content; review, propose, and implement solutions to a high standard of quality.

• Independently deliver sprint-level user stories, from design through implementation, testing, and deployment, ensuring quality and on-time completion within your pod.

• Produce high-quality, maintainable code and implement automated tests (unit, integration, and/or functional) to support reliable deployments.

• Improve automation and contribute to CI/CD and release workflows to minimise engineering toil.

• Participate in technical design discussions, owning simpler design elements (for example, REST API endpoints, service changes, or content configuration) and contributing to feature designs within the team.

• Collaborate closely with team members, product managers, and architects; actively participate in team rituals (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and provide constructive feedback.

• Fine-tune implementations using feedback from team members; provide thoughtful code review feedback to others, and learn from reviews of your own work.

• Participate in interrupt/support and on-call rotations, independently handling simple production issues using runbooks and capturing follow-up actions.

• Capture and use operational metrics (logging, monitoring, dashboards) for features you own, and drive completion of postmortem action items to improve reliability.

• Share learnings with the team, help onboard and mentor more junior engineers (e.g., Software Engineer 1, interns), and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and feedback.

• 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.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience using core Java and building N-tier or service-based applications using Java-based technologies (for example, Spring / Spring Boot or similar), including automated testing frameworks (for example, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito).

• Experience delivering user stories or features as part of an agile team, from design through implementation, testing, and release, with accountability for quality.

• 2+ years of experience in facets of enterprise software systems development, such as:

  • relational database systems (JDBC, ORM, data modelling and design),

  • software architecture fundamentals,

  • system integration (messaging, web services / REST, SOA),

  • and/or web UI or service-layer development.

• Familiarity with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, or similar.

• Exposure to cloud services (for example, AWS, GCP, or Azure) and distributed systems concepts (scalability, reliability, monitoring) is advantageous.

• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to break down medium-complexity, well-defined problems into implementable tasks and execute them effectively.

• Concise written and spoken communication skills in English; ability to communicate clearly with teammates across locations and time zones.

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

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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.

Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at accommodations-gw@employ-ability.org.uk, our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.