Senior Application Engineer AI (Python, FastAPI & LLM)

Summary

Job Description

• End-to-End Feature Delivery:Own the dev work on a Strike Team REST APIs frontend wiring feature logic and integration with AI components for one high-complexity or strategic AI productization project at a time.
• Technical Execution:Make day-to-day implementation calls contribute to design reviews and make sound trade-off decisions on your features; escalate cross-cutting concerns to the Engineering Manager.
• AI Integration:Partner with your AI Engineer to bring LLM-based components into production paths prompt invocation response handling fallbacks observability running on AWS Bedrock. Youll shape how these components are integrated collaborate on the design decisions that affect the product and bring the AI Architect in on the deeper algorithmic calls.
• Platform & Standards Consumption:Build on top of the teams shared CI/CD vector DB auth QA and UI/UX foundations. Push back to the horizontal layer when something is missing or wrong.
• Code Quality & Mentorship:Set a high bar for code review testing and engineering hygiene through your own work. Mentor the Consultant Product Engineer and the AI pairing partners.
• AI-Native Development:Leverage AI coding tools (Claude Code Copilot) to accelerate delivery while maintaining a high quality bar.

• End-to-end delivery of high-complexity or strategic projects on schedule.
• Quality bar upheld: review standards test coverage and observability for owned features.
• Reliable AI integration LLM-backed paths with sound fallbacks and acceptable latency.
• Mentorship impact: growth of the Consultant Product Engineer and AI pairing partners.
• Platform feedback loop: gaps surfaced and resolved with the horizontal teams.

• Expert-level skills in Python and the surrounding production ecosystem (async FastAPI Pydantic pytest). Experience with Java or TypeScript is useful though Python is strongly preferred.
• Strong REST API design experience database modeling (SQL and at least one NoSQL store) and event-driven patterns.
• Working knowledge of frontend frameworks (React or equivalent) sufficient to wire UI components into your APIs.
• Working understanding of LLM APIs and how AI features are integrated prompt invocation streaming retries fallbacks. Youll partner with AI specialists on the modeling and data-science work contributing to the integration design and knowing when to bring in the AI Architect.
• Experience with coding assistants (Claude Code Copilot).

• Guidewire Knowledge:Prior experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite or Guidewire Cloud is a significant plus.
• Team Leadership:Prior experience leading small teams or owning a feature area end-to-end.

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.

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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 its applicable to the position.