Senior Manager- AI Engineering

Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams of 5+ direct reports.

–    Strong backend development background (Java, Python, or equivalent) with deep experience in system design and distributed systems.

–    Hands-on experience with database access patterns, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and horizontal scaling.

–    Working understanding of how AI/LLM features get integrated into production systems.

You own the architectural decisions where AI and deterministic components meet, partnering with AI specialists on deeper modeling work and knowing when to bring them in.

–    Strong CI/CD and engineering hygiene background (Git workflows, automated testing, observability).

You will partner with our AI Architect and Platform Architect to ensure that 4–6 concurrent AI productization projects ship reliably, securely, and at scale, while building a high-performing engineering culture inside the dev pod.

Team Leadership: Build, grow, and retain a high-performing dev pod of Senior and Consultant Product Engineers, a UI/UX Systems Developer, the QA Dev Architect, and a SecOps Engineer.

Dev-Side Architecture: Hold Architect-level authority for product-side technical decisions — backend architecture, deterministic business logic, database access patterns, and system scaling choices (e.g., RabbitMQ-backed queues, async processing patterns).

Delivery Oversight: Set the bar for code quality, review standards, and release readiness across all Strike Teams.

Day-to-day per-project technical calls are delegated to the SR Product Engineers leading each team; you set the standards they execute against.

Cross-Pod Coordination: Pair with the AI Architect to ensure deterministic and non-deterministic components compose cleanly.

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.

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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.