Software Engineer II

Company: Guidewire Software
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

SummaryAre you a result-oriented, polyglot programmer using 12-factor app methodology to craft your Cloud products? If so, we would like to meet you!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. Guidewire Cloud is powered by the highly resilient Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, with SLAs backed by experienced Guidewire teams and SaaS-certified partners spanning application management, system administration, security and compliance, upgrades, QA testing, health checks, and other services.Job DescriptionWhat you get to do

• Making an impact with your contribution in building the industry leading cloud platform as a service
• Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms!
• Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code.
• Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing.
• Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment.
• Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters.What you bring to Guidewire:
  • 2-5 years of relevant work experience
  • A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange
  • Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc.
  • Linux debugging skills
  • Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent
  • Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)
  • Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles
  • Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps
  • Reinforce sound repeatable automated services.Nice to Have
    • Software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent
    • Container technologies: Docker, Linux debugging
    • Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success
    • Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment.What you should know about this role:
      • This is an office-based position with the flexibility to WFH as applicable
      • This position is regularly involved pair programming.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000 - $174,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Disability Accommodations and Guidewire's Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com.About GuidewireGuidewire 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.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.
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