Software Engineer (Python) PricingCenter

Summary

As part of Guidewires Product Development & Operations (PDO) organization youll join the PricingCenter team that designs and builds the pricing engine at the heart of how P&C insurers rate and underwrite risk in the cloud. We work in a highly collaborative hybrid environment pairing closely with product UX and data teams to deliver secure reliable services at scale. Our stack centers on Python modern web APIs and cloudnative architectures.

In this role you will be a productfocused Python engineer who owns features endtoendfrom exploring requirements through to production reliability. Youll help shape new pricing and rating capabilities build performant APIs and services and guide technical decisions that support PDOs FY26 priorities around AI cloud adoption and operational excellence. You will partner with peers across Guidewire to ensure PricingCenter is a marketleading pricing solution that helps insurers modernize automate and gain insight from their pricing strategies directly contributing to Guidewires mission to transform how the worlds P&C insurers do business.

Job Description

• Execute engineering tasks utilizing Python (RESTful APIs using Flask and FastAPI with extensive use of SQLAlchemy and Pydantic)

• Design and build proprietary solutions involving insurance pricing algorithms modeling and data visualizations.

• Partner with product management to convert business needs into secure high-quality production features applying professional judgment to choose appropriate tools and architectural patterns.

• Manage the full development lifecycle: analyze requirements architect solutions conduct spikes develop PoCs and deploy scalable thoroughly tested production code.

• Maintain and refine existing applications to ensure consistent alignment with established SLOs.

• Participate in agile ceremonies contribute to RFC/ADR documentation and perform peer code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.

• Enhance observability and reliability of applications/components by implementing logging metrics tracing dashboards and alerting that support incident triage rootcause analysis and continuous improvement.

• Hands-on experience in building and deploying web applications Python-based backend APIs and major cloud infrastructures (AWS GCP or Azure).

• 4 years of relevant professional experience in software development.

• Experience with some of the following: FastAPI SQLAlchemy Pydantic Celery.

• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) and familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices and tools (Github Actions Git-based workflows).

• Strong foundation in Algorithms Data Structures and performance optimization techniques for scalable applications.

• Experience with relational databases (like Postgres) and familiarity with NoSQL databases (like Redis) is an advantage.

• Proactive mindset for learning new technologies robust work ethic commitment to resolving technical challenges and responsibility.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts.

• Exposure to Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI development tools (Claude Copilot).

• Data engineering background or interest familiarity with NumPy pandas Polars is a plus.

• Experience with full-stack development with Typescript and React is a plus.

The Canadian CAD base salary range for this full-time position is 106000.00 - 132000.00. 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 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.

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 and follow us on Twitter: @GuidewirePandC.

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 its applicable to the position.