Enjoy coding and passionate about technology? You'll love being in our Data Platform team. Getting involved with exciting projects that matter, you'll spend a huge chunk of time doing what you do best: hands-on coding.

Guidewire is a top cloud employer on Glassdoor with a startup frame of mind and the world-class platform for global Property & Casualty market. An enterprise-grade, internet-scale, and cloud-native Big Data platform.

If you're up for taking on comprehensive projects, ready to run head on into change and comfortable with the uncomfortable, you’ll fit right in here. Join Guidewire as a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform.

You’ll bring formidable programming skills in Java backend to work in modern big data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive) for the cloud. You'll work with a well-rounded team that's agile, collaborative, and way more interested in team wins than solo successes.

You'll design, build, develop, and run our best-in-class cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS offerings.

What you bring to the table:

• Expertise in Java and Java Enterprise technology applications architecture, design, development
• 8+ years experience in designing and developing scalable enterprise level back end solutions
• Proven skills and Hands-on programming experience in Java, Spring, multi-threading, REST, Data Caching Services, DB schema design and data access technologies
• Hands-on with architecture, design, development and deployment of enterprise systems
• Experience rolling out distributed, large-scale, low latency applications
• Experience in architecting and defining Application layer in SOA/Micro Services landscape
• Understand security concepts and build reliable and safe distributed applications
• Experience with leading and mentoring Engineers
• Solid knowledge of applications performance improvement techniques and caching solutions
• Ability to successfully multi-task and support multiple, concurrent projects
• Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc.
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Knowledge understanding or Experience in high volume streaming frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink technologies is plus.
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent

If you've got the following experience, even better!

• Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• AWS (EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis)
• ELK
• Building SaaS/PaaS on AWS/GCP/Azure
• AI/ML
We're drawn to continuous learners who not only ask questions to understand, but who find the answers, too. If you also like using your team-working skills to mentor and lead others, let's talk.

At Guidewire, we value individual freedom, empowerment, and inclusivity, which is why we want each of our employees to be heard and celebrated. We’re in the business of uplifting people, so they can fulfill their goals and ambitions. So, there’s plenty of time and space for you to broaden your skills and experience.

Excited and ready for a career upgrade? Get in touch to learn more about the Guidewire team you'd be joining!

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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 450 insurers, 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons 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.

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 (650) 356-4940 or Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.