Senior Software Engineer

About this role

Canada - Toronto; Canada - Mississauga, ON

Product Strategy/Full time/Hybrid

We are growing our engineering team and are looking for an experienced, product-minded Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys ownership, values clean and reliable systems, and thrives in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
Our technology stack includes Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, and AWS.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and ship well-tested, high-quality code across both front-end and back-end services.

Take a leading role in shaping system architecture, technical standards, and long-term platform direction.

Design and implement new platform capabilities and continuously improve existing systems.

Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability as our customer base and data volumes grow.

Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and observability to support rapid and safe iteration.

Review code, mentor teammates, and provide technical guidance to elevate engineering quality across the team.

Actively contribute to our engineering culture through d learning, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

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 Bring

8+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating SaaS or enterprise web applications in production environments.

Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with experience working across modern web stacks.

Hands-on experience building and operating platform software using Kubernetes, and cloud-native services, ideally on AWS.

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and observability tooling.

Proven ability to design systems or lead technical initiatives that have successfully scaled in production.

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