Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Guidewire
Technical Lead
Office located in Bedford, MA
Back-end software for P&C insurance
Open for applications
Back-end software for P&C insurance
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Bedford, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To constantly improve, so insurance companies can successfully respond to customer needs in a world where technology and risk are changing dramatically.
Role
Who you are
- You must be a self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision while working alongside intelligent colleagues who've checked their egos at the door in a team environment, communicating effectively with everyone. We've built a strong culture, and we're looking for engineers who can help us maintain it
- A desire to work 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 demonstrated 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
- Proficiency in Core Java and good working knowledge of JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS
- Experience with a market-leading client-side framework (e.g. React, Angular) is plus
- Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Unit/Integration Testing
- Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles
- Experience building secure software and knowledge of web security best-practices
- Significant experience working with Open Source frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate, jBPM, and others)
- Understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus
- Excellent understanding of Agile development principles
- Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs
- Experience building microservices on cloud service platforms (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Technical design and leadership of features from inception to release
- Technical leadership experience in mentoring less experienced engineers
- Maintaining and promoting a healthy codebase and ensuring high-quality products
- BS/MS degree (Computer Science or related field)
- 10+ years of Full-Stack Software Development experience
- The ideal candidate will share our core values: Collegiality, Integrity, and Rationality
What the job involves
- Guidewire's development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Staff Software Engineer to build elegant solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry's complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better
- The team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer who is passionate about building high-quality software with a great 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 100+ enterprises serving more than a million users. Our software supports significant data volumes and heavy server load
- Our platform includes a cluster-safe persistence layer, inter-application messaging architecture, an MVC Web layer, and a lot more. The successful candidate will work on the entire technology stack, from the core persistence layer through to the Web Application front ends
Our take
Insurance is an age-old industry rooted in ancient technology. Despite the substantial power and revenue of these companies, their backend systems have become outdated, leading to rising relative costs. The challenge of modernizing such entrenched systems has been a significant hurdle for many insurers.
Guidewire is at the forefront of transforming Property and Casualty insurance by offering cutting-edge software solutions delivered via the cloud. The company is dedicated to evolving its offerings through close collaboration with its extensive customer base. This intimate engagement helps Guideire refine and enhance its cloud solutions to better meet the needs of it sclients.
Despite its successes in facilitating the cloud transition, the future may see the emergence of insurance providers built on entirely different infrastructures. Guidewire's ability to adapt and leverage its expertise and adapt will be crucial for maintaining its role as a leading technology provider.
Steph
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2008
$0.8m
SERIES C
Sep 2007
$24m
SERIES C
Total funding: $24.8m
Company values
- Integrity: We build and maintain honest, candid, and caring relationships with clients, potential customers, partners, investors, and of course, each other!
- Rationality: All we do is supported by factual evidence—whether it’s building awesome products, making decisions, or communicating with each other
- Collegiality: We’re in it together—so we’re all equal. We work in professional harmony, with respect, without arrogance, and as part of a structure where responsibility is shared and owned by all of us
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
Mike Rosenbaum
(CEO, not founder)Prior to Guidewire, they led Product Management and Go-To-Market Strategy for core CRM products at Salesforce and served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer.
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