Software Engineer III (Java, backend, Microservices)

Summary Join Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations (PDO) organization as a Software Engineer on the InsuranceNow product development team in Bangalore. You’ll help deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions for the global property and casualty insurance industry, focusing on operational excellence and transformative innovation. This is an onsite, full-time opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and a collaborative team. InsuranceNow is an all-in-one core, data analytics, and digital engagement system providing comprehensive insurance business functionality. We are expanding InsuranceNow product development to Bangalore, and as part of this expansion, we are looking for an engineer who will play a significant role in enhancing the product’s scope. If you don’t have a background in the insurance domain, don’t worry—our team includes many with deep insurance expertise who will help you ramp up as you contribute your engineering skills. InsuranceNow product provides the unique opportunity of learning and applying various technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, Javascript, HTML, Relational and Analytics Databases, Selenide test framework, CICD and Operations monitoring tools such as GitHub, Teamcity and DataDog. Job Description What you'll do: Analyze product requirements and translate them into functional definitions, software designs for the InsuranceNow product. Partner with Infosec teams to implement the Secure SDLC, ensure the designs meet robust security standards, code passes all security scans, and penetration tests. Leverage AI agentic tools for code development, analyze application logs, and look for opportunities to automate development tasks to achieve higher quality and efficiency. Develop product features and write automated tests, with most of the time going to be hands-on coding. Contribute to the continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines for InsuranceNow services. Support the scalability, availability, and data security of InsuranceNow’s product services. Closely work with Product Operations and Customer Support teams to enable them to provide top notch customer experience of the product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, QA, operations, and domain experts) to deliver product enhancements that drive measurable customer value. Embrace Guidewire’s values of collegiality, integrity, and rationality, contributing to a culture that is customer-focused and innovation-driven. What you'll bring: 4–5 years of experience using Java and object-oriented programming. Familiarity with Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, and related engineering practices. Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases. Past experience with optimization of DB schema, SQL queries by analyzing query plans, DB server configuration tweaks is highly desirable. Experience with developing RESTful APIs, supporting developer community on using APIs is highly desirable AWS Cloud services knowledge is highly desirable. Understanding of Single-Sign-On (SSO), SAML, and authentication/authorization concepts is a big plus. Willingness to learn the insurance domain; prior insurance experience is not required. Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically: Want to work collaboratively in small, empowered, cross-functional teams. Are committed to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code and collaborating effectively with geographically distributed teams and domain experts. Have experience in agile development environments (e.g., TDD, agile practices, pair programming). Show curiosity and internal motivation to constantly improve their skills and the product. Communicate clearly, are comfortable speaking their mind and sharing ideas based on merit, and at the same time bring humility and a hunger to learn from others. 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 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.