Senior Software Engineer , Tech Lead at Guidewire Software in San Mateo, CA

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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 developmen