Summary

Join Guidewire's Product Development and Operations (PDO) team in Bangalore, where we deliver operational excellence and transformative innovation for the world's leading P&C insurance software. Our mission is to accelerate AI, cloud, and platform adoption, ensuring our solutions provide measurable value and efficiency for customers. You'll collaborate in a culture that values curiosity, teamwork, and continuous improvement, working on cloud-based SaaS products that drive industry change.

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role within the Application Platform organization, leading multiple product development teams. You will be responsible for driving and coordinating major platform and cloud service products. This role is pivotal in shaping product architecture, driving technical reviews, and fostering a collaborative environment. We seek a leader passionate about cloud innovation, who thrives on solving complex challenges and empowering teams to deliver customer-centric solutions. You will have the opportunity to impact and contribute to a complex application suite of products that generate over a billion dollars of revenue annually, mission-critical to over 400 enterprises serving more than a million users.

Job Description

What you'll do

Lead, mentor, and develop top-notch engineering talents across multiple product development teams, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Own and drive the application development activities of multiple Scrum teams.
Drive the design, architecture, and technical reviews for cloud-based SaaS solutions, ensuring best practices and high-quality outcomes.
Champion the adoption of AI, cloud, and platform capabilities, embedding GenAI and automation into daily operations and product offerings.
Drive engineering best practices such as API first, TDD, and GitOps.
Coordinate the design, analysis, development, debugging, and improvement of Guidewire's Insurance products.
Collaborate closely with product, design, and operations teams, partnering with engineering leadership to set and deliver quarterly and annual goals.
Ensure operational excellence by improving platform reliability, security, and efficiency, and anticipate risks to execution to drive risk mitigation.
Guide the team through complex problem-solving, technical challenges, and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring timely and impactful delivery.
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 You'll Bring

Required Skills & Experience

Minimum 12 years of Software Development Experience, especially in building SaaS and/or PaaS products, and at a product company.
Minimum 3 years of experience in managing Software Engineers, including performance and career management.
Minimum 2 years of managing multiple Scrum teams in Software Product Development.
Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
Strong programming experience in Java.
Proficiency in public cloud technologies (AWS preferably), Containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and DevOps practices.
Solid understanding of system design principles, distributed systems, and architecture.
Strong skills in design and architecture reviews, with the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for conveying technical information to all sorts of audiences.
A ceaseless desire to improve how things get done, particularly using automation.
Commitment to Guidewire's values of determination, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Experience in the insurance technology domain or with large-scale enterprise SaaS products.
Familiarity with GenAI, automation, and cloud-native development best practices.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you'll build strong relationships with your team, lead the delivery of key Application Platform features, and drive architectural improvements that enhance product reliability and customer value. Your leadership will directly support Guidewire's goals of operational excellence, transformative innovation, and customer-centricity, while helping to embed AI and cloud capabilities across our product portfolio. Over time, your influence will extend across teams, shaping the future of insurance technology and Guidewire's global impact.

All new hires participate in our in-person orientation process, designed to help you connect, learn, and thrive from day one.

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.

Engineering Manager, Application Platform