Guidewire is searching for an API Engineering Manager passionate about data, designing APIs, and building great engineering teams. You will lead a team of passionate, talented engineers who are building and maintaining our HazardHub API, the most comprehensive set of property risk data, casualty risk data, and hazard risk scoring in the P&C insurance industry. You will work to continually improve performance, reliability, and scalability while ensuring a high level of code quality. The role requires strong technical expertise, an architectural mind, leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across Engineering teams, Product, and other functions.

Who We Are, What We Believe, & What We Build

Guidewire is the market leader that 400+ insurance companies trust to run their critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies and agents settling claims. We believe making a great decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists. Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to change insurance. There is a lot to be done!

Responsibilities:

Hire, mentor, and lead engineers in a global environment.

Lead decision-making and collaboration across multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Oversee delivery of engineering projects and features involving various technologies and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Evolve the team’s culture and practices. Encourage the team’s efforts to streamline processes and workflows for increased stability and throughput.

Be technically hands-on as the situation demands.

Direct the analysis and resolution of problems associated with day-to-day operation of Cloud and big data infrastructure.

Positive attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced startup environment

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Strong technical credentials with 10+ years in software development; experience building enterprise Cloud, web and/or data-centric services and products preferred.

3+ years in managing or technically leading software development teams, ideally with hands-on architecture experience.

Experience building strong, successful technical teams and coaching and mentoring individuals along their career paths.

Ability to prioritize deliverables in a rapidly changing environment; communicate clearly to steer the team to deliver high-quality results.

Ability to represent operational and technical issues to senior leadership and dive deep into the technical details when required.

Ability to effectively collaborate in a cross-functional environment, including driving the resolution of technical issues across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Excellent application design skills and a strong understanding of multiple programming languages and design paradigms.

Hands-on technical experience with modern full-stack infrastructure (web browsers, application servers, REST APIs, and SQL), ideally in a Linux and Cloud-based environment.

Experience with Agile methodologies, including acting as a scrum-master for sprint planning and daily standups.

Experience with Cloud infrastructure and Cloud security

Preferred Skills:

Experience building great engineering teams, implementing best practices, and setting a foundation for growth.

Experience with AWS tech stack, microservice architectures, and frameworks.

Solid understanding of API architecture and API design best practices. Ability to lead and collaborate with multi-functional teams to drive API strategy

Experience with various engineering workflows in a cross-functional team: defining API specifications, security and compliance, internal/external onboarding process, data integrity, and driving standardized API adoption across the org.

Experience with Data ETL.

Experience with geospatial products is nice to have.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. We also pride ourselves on being a pay for performance company.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

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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 cloudservice. 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 visitwww.guidewire.comand 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.