Senior Software Engineer , Tech Lead — San Francisco

Summary Join Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations organization to build secure, scalable platform capabilities that help property and casualty insurers modernize their businesses. You’ll work with collaborative, curious engineers across backend services, infrastructure, and developer experience, using cloud, data, and AI technologies to improve reliability and customer value. This role supports PDO priorities around operational excellence, transformative innovation, and measurable efficiency for customers. You’ll provide technical leadership while designing and delivering core application-platform services. By combining strong software engineering judgment with responsible use of AI coding tools, you’ll help accelerate development, mentor teammates, and shape solutions that are reliable, secure, and ready to scale. Job Description What you’ll do • Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of backend services for Guidewire’s application platform. • Build APIs, microservices, and distributed systems that improve developer experience and support reliable product delivery. • Apply agentic coding tools, automation, and data-driven insights to accelerate development while maintaining engineering quality and responsible AI practices. • Engineer for scalability, availability, observability, performance, and security across the platform. • Collaborate with product managers, infrastructure engineers, security partners, and other cross-functional teams to deliver secure and efficient platform operations. • Contribute to cloud and data platform adoption, service reliability, security improvements, and new product initiatives aligned with PDO priorities. • Help identify and resolve complex technical issues, improve engineering practices, and deliver measurable improvements in platform efficiency and customer value. • Support and mentor junior engineers through thoughtful feedback, knowledge sharing, and hands-on technical guidance. • 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’ll bring Required • 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including system design and development of platform services. • Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python, with the ability to work effectively in other languages. • Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. • Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code. • Experience using coding agents, automation tools, or similar technologies to improve engineering productivity. • Understanding of software quality, scalability, availability, observability, and application security practices. • Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills. • 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. Preferred • Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience. • Experience operating production services in a public-cloud environment. • Experience with platform engineering, developer tooling, continuous integration and delivery, service reliability, or cloud-native application development. • Experience mentoring engineers or serving as a technical lead on cross-functional initiatives. • Familiarity with insurance technology, enterprise software as a service, data platforms, or responsible AI practices. Your Impact We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll partner with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to understand the application platform, deliver secure and scalable backend services, and identify opportunities to improve developer productivity and operational reliability. You’ll use AI-enabled development practices, contribute to cloud and data platform adoption, and help advance PDO goals such as reliable platform operations, stronger security, faster incident resolution, and measurable customer value. Over time, your technical leadership will influence platform direction, support new product launches, and help Guidewire transform the way the world’s property and casualty insurers do business. ¹ ² What’s in it for you The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as: • Flexible work environment • 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 • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge cloud, data, and AI initiatives • A collaborative and inclusive culture grounded in determination, collaboration, continuous improvement, and bravery ² ⁴ All new hires participate in our in-person orientation process to ensure a strong start and connection to our culture. Guidewire also embraces in-person interviews for all applicants and a flexible approach to work supported by collaborative physical offices. ² 
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $271,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

 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.