Senior Engineering Manager, Advanced Product Designer (APD)

Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to engineering leadership, product delivery, and team productivity, using data-driven insight to improve outcomes.

Extensive software engineering experience in SaaS or platform product development, with substantial experience managing engineering teams and leading through technical leads or multiple teams.

Strong hands-on technical background in Java and modern backend engineering, with depth in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and secure multi-tenant platforms.

Proven experience building and operating cloud applications on modern platforms such as AWS, including Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Experience driving architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical execution for platform or enterprise software products.

Demonstrated experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI capabilities into production software, platforms, or software engineering workflows.

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

Lead multiple APD engineering teams, typically 2–3 small teams and their technical leads, building a high-accountability, high-trust culture that emphasizes coaching, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.

Drive the architecture, delivery, and operational maturity of APD on App Platform 2.0, ensuring services are scalable, secure, observable, and aligned to Guidewire engineering standards.

Own delivery across APD’s key design-time and runtime capabilities, including the continued evolution of APD services, APIs, and supporting platform integrations.

Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Platform Engineering, Security, and SRE to translate product strategy into execution plans, drive launches, and ensure APD meets customer, compliance, and reliability expectations.

Help shape APD’s role as the product-model source of truth across the platform, including its relationship to schemas, rules, APIs, downstream digital experiences, and broader App Platform services.

Drive platform stewardship by working across adjacent capabilities such as Rules, Schema Editor, Package Manager, App Manager, and other lifecycle services to improve interoperability, reuse, and developer experience.

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.