Senior Software Engineer (Java backend, Cloud architecture)

Overview

Senior individual contributor role in Guidewire's Product Development organization, building scalable, cloud-native Java-based solutions for the InsuranceNow product, which serves Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers globally.

What you'll do

• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and senior engineering leadership across Product Development and Cloud Operations to design and deliver product features.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native services and integrations for InsuranceNow, with a strong focus on Java-based solutions.
• Lead the architecture and development of integrations between InsuranceNow and third-party systems commonly used in the insurance industry.
• Design systems that can scale horizontally to support more Tier 1 and Tier 2 insurers, with clear focus on performance, resilience, observability, and operability.
• Apply cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (primarily on AWS; Azure or GCP experience also welcome) to build robust, automated environments.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for your services, ensuring high-quality, low-friction deployments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage cloud resources in a repeatable and auditable way.
• Troubleshoot complex production and pre-production issues across application, infrastructure, and data layers using strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Follow and improve secure SDLC practices in partnership with InfoSec and other stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor other engineers, providing technical leadership and helping the team deliver high-quality outcomes.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of overall software or infrastructure development experience, including at least 3 years building applications on cloud architectures.
• Strong, hands-on experience with Java for backend application development, including object-oriented design and clean code practices.
• Experience designing and building distributed systems and services, ideally with microservices or event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience with at least one major cloud provider; AWS is highly preferred, but Azure or Google Cloud experience is also valuable.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native concepts such as zero-downtime deployments, blue/green or canary releases, and promotion of code from QA to staging to production.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or non-relational databases and how to model, query, and tune them for scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation; experience with Chef, Ansible, or Puppet is also acceptable.
• Demonstrated ability to design systems for scale, performance, reliability, and maintainability, especially in multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Proven logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex issues across multiple technical layers.
• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies.
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies and work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to mentor others and provide technical leadership within an engineering team.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise-grade integrations, including APIs, events, and messaging-based systems.
• Familiarity with API design (REST, event-based) and experience consuming or exposing business/application events.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (e.g., SSO, OAuth, SAML, role-based access control).
• Experience in the P&C insurance domain or other complex, highly regulated industries.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru office.
• Role is a senior individual contributor position within the Product Development organization.