• 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.
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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