Senior Software Engineer - Dublin, Ireland

Summary

Job Description

About You

You are a smart, enthusiastic, and results-oriented senior software engineer looking to lead an agile product development team that builds secure, performant, reliable, and well-tested solutions for a complex domain. You are highly collaborative, passionate about building high-quality software, and pride yourself on your ability to lead engineering teams to do the best work of their careers. You understand how to mentor and coach others to solve hard engineering problems, but you also love to roll up your sleeves and hammer out well-crafted code. You are excited to contribute to our industry-leading platform, our award-winning products, and the processes we use to build, deliver, and support our platform and products.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

• Lead 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.

What We’re Looking For:

• Core Java expertise (five years’ experience minimum in a professional engineering role)

• History of outstanding software delivery

• Proficiency in industry design patterns

• Proven ability to lead the design of 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.

Successful candidates rarely have every single thing we’re looking for. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our hiring team to assess your application

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.