Software Engineer I

Summary

About Us

Guidewire is the world’s most complete Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance platform. Our mission is to help P&C insurers engage with their customers, innovate intentionally, and grow efficiently. Our core, digital, and analytics products are trusted by leading P&C insurers in 40+ countries, many of them on our cloud, helping them better mitigate risk, which creates a safer and more resilient society for everyone.

About You

You are a smart, enthusiastic, and results-oriented software engineer looking to join an agile product development team that builds secure, performant, reliable, and well-tested solutions for a complex domain. You are highly collaborative, passionate about building high-quality software, and pride yourself on your ability to learn. You understand that software engineering is a team endeavour and that excellence is unlocked through small but meaningful improvements made continuously over time. You are excited to contribute to our industry-leading platform, our award-winning products, and the processes we use to build, deliver, and support our platform and products.

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Engineer moderate to complex features for our platform and products using agile methodologies with an emphasis on delivering functionality that is secure, performant, and reliable.
• Take high-level but not super detailed problem statements and prototype solutions with a high level of independence, collaborating with others both inside and outside your immediate team to overcome complicated issues.
• Efficiently troubleshoot system failures, whether in production, pre-production, or non-production environments.
• Live our core values of rationality, collegiality, and integrity.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Core Java expertise (one years’ experience minimum in a professional engineering role)
• Good working knowledge of other programming and scripting languages (Kotlin, Python, bash)
• Object-oriented design skills
• A passion for code quality
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery and supporting build and code management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, JUnit, Karate, TestCafe, JaCoCo, SonarQube)
• A proven ability to work collaboratively in small, empowered,cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of developing functionality using agile development practices (Scrum, TDD, pair programming, etc.)
• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code
• Curiosity and an internal drive to learn and constantly improve
• Experience creating web services (SOAP, REST)
• Experience with cloud services a bonus, e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
  
  

Successful candidates rarely have every single thing we’re looking for. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our hiring team to assess your application.

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.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

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 it's applicable to the position.