Senior Backend Engineer - DevOps

Guidewire is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join their remote development team, playing a key role in building products for insurance pricing and rating platforms that serve millions of customers worldwide.

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Python development of RESTful APIs using Flask and FastAPI with extensive use of SQLAlchemy and pydantic
• Analysing requirements, proposing solutions, spiking, building PoCs and production grade, well tested solutions and releasing them
• Supporting, optimizing and maintaining solutions to meet SLOs
• Cooperating with team members through PR reviews, RFCs/ADRs and agile ceremonies

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python development (minimum 6 years of experience)
• Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, Celery
• Experience in building software for high availability using Kubernetes, Docker and cloud-native technologies
• Experience using public cloud providers, preferably AWS (including Kubernetes, IAM, S3)
• Strong foundation in algorithmics and data structures
• Experience in taking ownership of quality through test automation (TDD, BDD are nice to have)
• Expertise in profiling and performance optimization at code, database and infrastructure levels
• A high sense of responsibility, good work ethic and a natural curiosity and openness to new ideas and tools
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in an English-speaking environment
• You are ready to face challenges and solve complex technical problems
• You enjoy working with people and don't mind occasional face to face meetings with the team when needed