Software Engineer – Full-Stack

Summary

Guidewire is searching for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Software Engineer to build sophisticated solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry's complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. The product development team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer who is passionate about building high-quality software with a phenomenal team and improving the customer experience for millions of people who use our products every day.

You will have the opportunity to make an impact and contribute to a complex application suite of products that generate over 500 million dollars of revenue annually, mission-critical to 400+ enterprises serving more than a million users. Guidewire provides outstanding software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We deliver the core applications that Property and Casualty (P/C) insurers use to build their products, sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. The SaaS solutions delivered via Guidewire Cloud enable our customers to rapidly innovate and drive measurable value. Guidewire Cloud is powered by the highly resilient Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, with SLAs backed by experienced Guidewire teams and SaaS-certified partners spanning application management, system administration, security and compliance, upgrades, QA testing, health checks, and other services.

The successful candidate will work on the entire technology stack, from the core persistence layer through to the Web Application front ends.
Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You must be a self-starter and able to perform with minimal direction while working alongside intelligent colleagues who've checked their egos at the door in a team environment, communicating optimally with everyone. We've built a strong culture, and we're looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.

Job Description

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have: 

• Enjoy working collaboratively in an empowered, small, cross-functional team

• Experience working in an agile and fast paced development environment (e.g. TDD, BDD, Agile, pair programming, etc.)

• A passion for code quality proven by thorough testing

• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code

• Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly improve

• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment

• Excellent communication skills, comfort level to speak their mind and defend ideas based on merit, yet humility and hunger to learn from others

Key qualifications include experience with:

• Strong experience in Core Java and solid understanding of JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS.

• Experience with a market leading client-side framework (e.g. React, Angular) is plus.

• Familiarity with CI & CD pipeline, Unit & Integration Testing

• Knowledge of design patterns and best coding practices.

• Strong command of Object-Oriented Design principles

• Experience building secure software and familiarity with of web security best-practices

• Experience working with Open-Source frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate, jBPM, others)

• Understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus  

• Familiarity and experience with Agile development practices 

• Experience with REST or gRPC based APIs

• Experience with Cloud Services (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)

A typical candidate has a Computer Science degree or equivalent.

Our employee Culture

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Who We Are

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $84,000 - $156,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter c