Full-Time
Posted on 7/11/2025
Cloud-based SaaS platform for P&C insurers
$152k - $270k/yr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Remote in USA
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Guidewire provides software for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. Its platform is a cloud-based suite that helps insurers run core operations such as underwriting, policy administration, billing, and claims, with added analytics and AI features. Customers subscribe to the software as a service (SaaS) and pay for cloud access, implementation, and ongoing support. The company differentiates itself by its deep specialization in P&C, a large number of successful implementations (about 1,600), a track record of industry recognition (awards and a strong position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for P&C Core Platforms in North America), and an integrated set of digital, core, analytics, and AI tools designed to modernize insurers’ core systems. Its goal is to help P&C insurers modernize their technology, improve customer experiences, and grow their businesses through a cloud-based platform.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Mateo, California
Founded
2001
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Health & Wellness: Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.
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Downtime: Relax and kick back through our generous paid time-off programs. Make a difference in your community with three volunteer days each year. Take your own personal day of rest with My Day. We also offer ample paid leave for all new parents.
Continual Development: We encourage self-directed learning, giving you every chance to become a better version of yourself, both professionally and personally. At Guidewire, lifelong learning is here for the taking.
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Reimagining insurance: how AI, ecosystems, and specialty lines are driving the next growth wave. March 24, 2026 As insurers accelerate their digital transformation journeys, specialty and commercial insurance are emerging as powerful growth engines for the industry. Driven by evolving risk landscapes, regulatory shifts, and rapid technological innovation, insurers are rethinking traditional operating models and embracing more agile, ecosystem-led approaches. In a conversation with Elets Technomedia, Rajeev Batra, Executive Vice President - Insurance at Coforge, shares how technology, AI, and strategic partnerships are redefining specialty insurance and enabling insurers to scale with speed, resilience, and precision. As insurers accelerate their digital agendas, specialty and commercial insurance are fast emerging as key growth engines for the industry - and for Coforge. Specialty insurance, which addresses complex and non-standard risks, is entering a decisive phase of transformation driven by technology, regulation, and evolving risk profiles. Over the next few years, specialty insurers will increasingly expand into emerging risk categories such as climate-related exposures, supply-chain disruptions, cyber threats, and environmental liabilities. At the same time, the market is shifting toward more carrier-centric operating models, with flexible policy terms, modular coverage structures, and pay-per-use constructs becoming central to product design. Regulatory scrutiny is also intensifying, particularly across cyber, aviation, professional indemnity, and environmental liability lines - making compliance-by-design a critical requirement rather than an afterthought. To help specialty carriers respond to these dynamics, Coforge has built an "Insurance-in-a-Box" toolkit that enables faster, more efficient product launches through a partner-driven model. Insurers can selectively deploy ready-made insurance components, paying only for what they implement, while retaining the ability to customize at scale. Backed by Coforge's strategic alliances with leading core SaaS platforms, global cloud hyperscalers, and modern AI-led Insurtech firms, the approach allows specialty insurers to innovate with confidence, accelerate speed-to-market, and build resilient ecosystems. As part of its global expansion across the US, Europe, and Australia, Coforge is deepening its Insurtech partnerships with a sharp focus on domain-led innovation. Batra explains that partner selection is guided by the ability to seamlessly integrate with core insurance platforms and meaningfully enhance - or reimagine - key elements of the insurance value chain. These collaborations are designed to drive automation from the front office through the middle and back office, delivering tangible business outcomes and helping insurers build future-ready operating models. Generative AI is now emerging as a powerful catalyst across underwriting and claims - areas that have traditionally been slower to adopt new technologies. Coforge is leveraging GenAI to automate document-heavy workflows such as submission intake, policy administration, operational processing, and First Notice of Loss (FNOL), delivering significant gains in speed and accuracy. Beyond automation, GenAI enables advanced media ingestion, contextual knowledge augmentation, workflow orchestration, and multi-agent collaboration across the insurance lifecycle - from quoting and underwriting to third-party integrations and downstream systems. Coforge has developed a portfolio of more than 30 insurance-specific accelerators in collaboration with tier-1 specialty carriers. These accelerators span marketing, distribution, product management, underwriting and risk, policy servicing, claims, and finance and accounting. Applied across specialty lines such as political and environmental risk, they enable straight-through processing through advanced appetite checks and rule-based decisioning - built on compliance-first architectures to ensure regulatory alignment and measurable ROI. Cloud hyperscalers and core platforms form the foundation of Coforge's insurance transformation strategy. Guided by its philosophy of "The Power of Many and the Impact of One Ecosystem," Coforge combines AI-native cloud services, scalable infrastructure, and DevSecOps automation to deliver both agility and cost efficiency. By integrating leading platforms such as Guidewire and Duck Creek, Coforge has helped insurers accelerate product launches by up to 40 percent. In one large-scale engagement, Coforge deployed over 40 insurance products for a $7-billion global specialty P&C insurer across 17 countries, using a single Azure cloud instance to support multi-currency, multilingual, and multi-time-zone operations. In another AWS-native core transformation program, infrastructure costs were reduced by 25 percent and deployment cycles were shortened from weeks to days through optimized workloads, embedded automation, and cloud-native design. Legacy modernization remains one of the industry's most complex challenges, and Coforge addresses it through a phased, low-risk transformation approach. This begins with decoupling legacy systems and enabling API-led integration to support gradual cloud migration. Central to this strategy is Forge-X, Coforge's integrated engineering and delivery platform, purpose-built to drive AI-powered modernization at scale. Forge-X brings together domain intelligence, AI agents, and industry-specific tools such as CodeInsightAI for reverse and forward engineering, BlueSwan for AI-driven quality assurance, NORTHSTAR for CI/CD observability, and EvolveOps.AI for autonomous IT operations across hybrid environments. This modernization framework has been successfully applied across multiple commercial and specialty carriers. For example, Coforge helped a $2-billion DWP commercial and specialty carrier in the US Midwest consolidate and modernize 27 products across multiple business units by implementing a SaaS-based policy administration platform - reducing quote turnaround times from days to just hours. Looking ahead, Coforge's insurance growth strategy is anchored around three clear priorities. The first is expanding deeper into emerging risk segments by embedding AI-first operating models that drive efficiency and speed-to-market. The second focuses on strengthening relationships with tier-1 insurers and Fortune 500 carriers by combining deep specialty insurance expertise with platform engineering and partner-led innovation. The third priority is the continued evolution of Coforge's AI-driven legacy modernization framework, using template-based approaches to fast-track transformation journeys for both existing and new clients. As the industry accelerates toward agentic AI, customer engagement and claims management are undergoing fundamental change. Batra emphasizes that responsible AI adoption - grounded in transparency, ethics, and human oversight - will be central to sustaining trust. AI-powered platforms are enabling customers to self-serve, access real-time information, and manage policies with ease, while human expertise remains available for complex or sensitive interactions. Within Coforge's ecosystem, agentic AI is already reshaping roles across the insurance value chain. Agents are empowered with instant policy insights and personalized recommendations, brokers can deliver faster and more transparent advisory services, underwriters benefit from richer data and advanced analytics for sharper risk selection, and claims adjusters are supported by AI-driven fraud detection and automated reviews - leading to quicker resolutions and improved loss ratios. Real-time, AI-powered decisioning is becoming a critical differentiator for specialty insurers operating in volatile and complex markets. By combining advanced AI with unified, high-quality data layers, insurers can deliver more accurate risk segmentation, flexible underwriting structures, and modular coverage options across lines such as political, environmental, and cyber insurance. The result is faster decisions, greater transparency, and superior customer outcomes - strengthening both competitiveness and long-term trust. "Exciting news! 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Guidewire Software, a cloud-based software provider for property and casualty insurance companies, declined 12.6% in the fourth quarter of 2025 despite strong fundamental performance, according to BBH Select Series – Mid Cap Fund's investor letter. The company reported annual recurring revenue growth accelerating to 21% in constant currency, its fastest growth since 2020. Subscription revenue grew 36% with 82% incremental margins. Guidewire raised full-year guidance across all metrics and introduced two new modules expanding its product offering. The stock fell alongside the broader software sector amid concerns that AI will commoditise software coding and lower barriers to entry. However, BBH believes Guidewire's market leadership and vertical domain expertise position it to benefit from AI adoption. The company has a market capitalisation of $13.45 billion.
Guidewire Software, an insurance software provider, reported better-than-expected Q4 CY2025 revenue of $359.1 million, up 24% year-on-year and 4.8% above analyst estimates. The company's non-GAAP profit of $1.17 per share beat consensus by 52.5%. Next quarter's revenue guidance of $355 million exceeded analyst expectations by 4.6%. Full-year revenue guidance was lifted to $1.44 billion from $1.41 billion. Annual recurring revenue reached $1.12 billion, growing 22.1% year-on-year. CEO Mike Rosenbaum attributed the performance to strong demand for cloud-based insurance platforms and growing adoption of analytics and AI tools. The company closed 15 InsuranceSuite Cloud deals and nine ProNavigator AI solution deals during the quarter. Management highlighted increased customer willingness to commit to longer contracts of six years or more.
Guidewire Software reported quarterly earnings of $1.17 per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.77 per share and exceeding last year's $0.51 per share. The earnings surprise was 52.94%, marking the third time in four quarters the company has beaten consensus estimates. The insurance software provider posted revenues of $359.1 million for the quarter ended January 2026, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4.84%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $289.48 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates four times over the past four quarters. Despite the strong results, Guidewire shares have fallen 23.5% year-to-date, underperforming the S&P 500's 0.4% gain. The company currently holds a Zacks Rank of 3 (Hold), suggesting shares are expected to perform in line with the market.
Guidewire Software reported fourth-quarter revenue of $359.1 million, up 24% year on year and beating analyst estimates of $342.7 million. The insurance software provider's non-GAAP profit of $1.17 per share exceeded consensus estimates by 52.5%. The company provided strong guidance for next quarter, with revenue of $355 million at the midpoint, 4.6% above analyst expectations. Full-year revenue guidance was lifted to $1.44 billion from $1.41 billion. Free cash flow reached $105.7 million, reversing from negative $77.36 million in the previous quarter. Billings grew 25.8% year on year to $415.4 million. However, annual recurring revenue of $237.2 million declined 74.2% year on year, missing analyst estimates of $1.11 billion. Guidewire's market capitalisation stands at $13.08 billion.