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Join Guidewire's UnderwritingCenter team, a group dedicated to building and operating our cloud-native, enterprise-grade underwriting platform that powers critical risk assessment and decision-making for the world's leading P&C insurers. Our team is at the forefront of AI innovation in insurance technology, building intelligent agents using LangGraph, developing conversational AI chatbots, and pioneering new approaches to context management and knowledge retrieval. We work in a hybrid environment based in San Mateo, focused on GenAI, cloud-native architecture, and intelligent automation to drive measurable value for our customers.
As a Software Engineer (Full Stack) on UnderwritingCenter, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering next-generation AI-powered underwriting SaaS services. We seek a passionate engineer with deep expertise in modern full-stack development, public cloud, and AI/ML engineering, eager to solve complex challenges at scale. You'll work on groundbreaking projects involving LangGraph-based agents, conversational AI interfaces, and sophisticated context management systems that transform how underwriters interact with data and make decisions. Your work will directly impact Guidewire's mission to transform insurance technology and empower underwriters with AI-driven insights and streamlined workflows.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Design, develop, validate and deploy cloud-native full-stack applications on the Guidewire Cloud platform, owning designs for services within the UnderwritingCenter product area.
- Build scalable and secure applications using modern Java, Spring Boot microservices, and frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js), adhering to best practices for cloud environments.
- Design and implement AI agents using LangGraph to automate underwriting workflows, assist with risk assessment, and augment underwriter decision-making with intelligent recommendations.
- Develop conversational AI chatbot interfaces that enable natural language interactions between underwriters and the UnderwritingCenter platform, designing intuitive user experiences for complex insurance workflows.
- Collaborate within agile, fast-paced development teams, delivering product features and enhancements while consistently helping teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks to ensure overall team progress.
- Proactively triage and resolve code defects, ensuring minimal disruption to production systems and quick issue resolution. Serve as an expert on-call/support engineer for the team.
- Maintain secure coding practices and address application security findings, ensuring compliance with industry standards and safeguarding against vulnerabilities.
- Manage and own CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless and automated application delivery with exemplary release processes for complex product deployments.
What you'll bring
- 4+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development, with demonstrated progression in technical leadership and the ability to deliver multi-quarter projects within a team or pod.
- 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.
- Strong interest in AI/ML engineering and eagerness to work with LLMs, agent frameworks, and conversational AI systems.
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot microservices, with a solid understanding of multithreading and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles.
- Proven experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) and familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, OpenSearch).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration.
- Strong foundation in Algorithms, Data Structures, and performance optimization techniques for scalable applications.
- Strong understanding of Unit/Integration Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a highly cross-functional, agile environment.
- BS or MS degree in CS or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
YOUR IMPACT
We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll lead the design and delivery of AI-powered features for UnderwritingCenter, collaborating with cross-functional teams to launch innovative solutions that streamline underwriting workflows. Your contributions will drive measurable improvements in customer value, operational efficiency, and adoption of Guidewire’s cloud and AI platforms. Over time, your work will influence the direction of our products and help shape the future of insurance technology.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as:
- Flexible work environment
- Health and Wellness benefits
- Paid time off programs including volunteer time off
- Market-competitive pay and incentive programs
- Continual development and internal career growth opportunities.
All new hires participate in our in-person orientation process to ensure a strong start and connection to our unique culture.
As part of Guidewire’s PDO, you will contribute to our wider mission of delivering operational excellence and transformative innovation, with a strong focus on AI, cloud, and data platform adoption—ensuring our solutions deliver measurable value and efficiency for customers worldwide.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $210,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.
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 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, 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.
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
SUMMARY
Join Guidewire's UnderwritingCenter team, a group dedicated to building and operating our cloud-native, enterprise-grade underwriting platform that powers critical risk assessment and decision-making for the world's leading P&C insurers. Our team is at the forefront of AI innovation in insurance technology, building intelligent agents using LangGraph, developing conversational AI chatbots, and pioneering new approaches to context management and knowledge retrieval. We work in a hybrid environment based in San Mateo, focused on GenAI, cloud-native architecture, and intelligent automation to drive measurable value for our customers.
As a Software Engineer (Full Stack) on UnderwritingCenter, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering next-generation AI-powered underwriting SaaS services. We seek a passionate engineer with deep expertise in modern full-stack development, public cloud, and AI/ML engineering, eager to solve complex challenges at scale. You'll work on groundbreaking projects involving LangGraph-based agents, conversational AI interfaces, and sophisticated context management systems that transform how underwriters interact with data and make decisions. Your work will directly impact Guidewire's mission to transform insurance technology and empower underwriters with AI-driven insights and streamlined workflows.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Design, develop, validate and deploy cloud-native full-stack applications on the Guidewire Cloud platform, owning designs for services within the UnderwritingCenter product area.
- Build scalable and secure applications using modern Java, Spring Boot microservices, and frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js), adhering to best practices for cloud environments.
- Design and implement AI agents using LangGraph to automate underwriting workflows, assist with risk assessment, and augment underwriter decision-making with intelligent recommendations.
- Develop conversational AI chatbot interfaces that enable natural language interactions between underwriters and the UnderwritingCenter platform, designing intuitive user experiences for complex insurance workflows.
- Collaborate within agile, fast-paced development teams, delivering product features and enhancements while consistently helping teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks to ensure overall team progress.
- Proactively triage and resolve code defects, ensuring minimal disruption to production systems and quick issue resolution. Serve as an expert on-call/support engineer for the team.
- Maintain secure coding practices and address application security findings, ensuring compliance with industry standards and safeguarding against vulnerabilities.
- Manage and own CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless and automated application delivery with exemplary release processes for complex product deployments.
What you'll bring
- 4+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development, with demonstrated progression in technical leadership and the ability to deliver multi-quarter projects within a team or pod.
- 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.
- Strong interest in AI/ML engineering and eagerness to work with LLMs, agent frameworks, and conversational AI systems.
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot microservices, with a solid understanding of multithreading and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles.
- Proven experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) and familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, OpenSearch).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration.
- Strong foundation in Algorithms, Data Structures, and performance optimization techniques for scalable applications.
- Strong understanding of Unit/Integration Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a highly cross-functional, agile environment.
- BS or MS degree in CS or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
YOUR IMPACT
We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll lead the design and delivery of AI-powered features for UnderwritingCenter, collaborating with cross-functional teams to launch innovative solutions that streamline underwriting workflows. Your contributions will drive measurable improvements in customer value, operational efficiency, and adoption of Guidewire’s cloud and AI platforms. Over time, your work will influence the direction of our products and help shape the future of insurance technology.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as:
- Flexible work environment
- Health and Wellness benefits
- Paid time off programs including volunteer time off
- Market-competitive pay and incentive programs
- Continual development and internal career growth opportunities.
All new hires participate in our in-person orientation process to ensure a strong start and connection to our unique culture.
As part of Guidewire’s PDO, you will contribute to our wider mission of delivering operational excellence and transformative innovation, with a strong focus on AI, cloud, and data platform adoption—ensuring our solutions deliver measurable value and efficiency for customers worldwide.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $210,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.
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 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, 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.
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
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Target roles aligned with Guidewire's core platform
Guidewire builds insurance software, so H-1B sponsorship is most consistent in roles tied to its cloud platform, core product engineering, and data infrastructure. Applying to roles directly supporting the product suite improves your sponsorship odds significantly.
Understand where H-1B fits in Guidewire's hiring process
Guidewire initiates H-1B sponsorship after extending an offer, not before. Raise your visa status early in conversations so recruiters can confirm sponsorship eligibility for your specific role and location before you invest time in interviews.
Use verified sponsorship data when searching
Not every job posting makes sponsorship clear. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by real sponsorship history, helping you confirm Guidewire is actively filing H-1B petitions before you apply.
Prioritize roles in engineering and technical consulting
Guidewire's H-1B filings are concentrated in software engineering and implementation consulting. If your background is in Java development, cloud architecture, or enterprise software integration, those departments have the strongest sponsorship track record.
Prepare for a specialty occupation justification
Guidewire's technical roles typically qualify as specialty occupations, but USCIS scrutinizes software positions. Be ready for the employer to document why your specific role requires a specialized degree, particularly if your title is broad like 'software engineer.'
Ask about cap-exempt filing if transitioning from OPT
If you're currently on F-1 OPT, Guidewire can file your H-1B during the April cap season. Confirm your OPT expiration date aligns with the October 1 start date and ask HR whether cap-gap protection applies to your situation.
Guidewire Software H-1B Visa Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Guidewire Software sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes, Guidewire Software sponsors H-1B visas for qualifying roles. Sponsorship is concentrated in technical positions across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and implementation consulting. Guidewire has a consistent history of filing H-1B petitions, making it a legitimate target for international candidates pursuing U.S. work authorization in the insurance technology sector.
Which roles at Guidewire Software are most likely to receive H-1B sponsorship?
H-1B sponsorship at Guidewire is most common in software engineering, cloud platform development, data engineering, and technical consulting roles tied to its core insurance software products. Positions requiring specialized knowledge of the Guidewire platform or enterprise software systems tend to have the clearest sponsorship pathway, as they meet USCIS specialty occupation standards more easily.
How do I navigate the H-1B application process at Guidewire Software?
After receiving an offer, Guidewire's HR and legal team will work with an immigration attorney to file your H-1B petition. You'll need to provide educational credentials, employment verification, and documentation supporting the specialty occupation classification. The process involves a Labor Condition Application filed with the Department of Labor before USCIS receives the full petition.
How do I know if a Guidewire job posting includes H-1B sponsorship?
Many Guidewire postings don't explicitly state sponsorship availability. The most reliable approach is to ask the recruiter directly during your first conversation. You can also use Migrate Mate to filter verified H-1B sponsors and confirm Guidewire's sponsorship activity before applying, saving time on roles that may not support visa candidates.
What timeline should I expect for H-1B sponsorship at Guidewire Software?
If you're subject to the annual H-1B cap, Guidewire must file during the April registration window, with an October 1 employment start date if selected. From registration to work authorization is roughly six months. Premium processing, which expedites USCIS adjudication to 15 business days, is sometimes available and worth discussing with Guidewire's HR team during the offer stage.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B jobs at Guidewire Software?
H-1B employers must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is determined when they file the Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor. The rate is based on the role, location, and experience level, and ensures international hires are paid comparably to U.S. workers in the same position. You can look up prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the DOL's OFLC Wage Search tool.