Senior Software Engineer, Guidewire
Cloud
$125-229k
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Back-end software for P&C insurance
Open for applications
Back-end software for P&C insurance
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$125-229k
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
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
- 10+ years of relevant work experience
- A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange
- Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc
- Linux debugging skills
- Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent
- Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)
- Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles
- Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps
- Reinforce sound repeatable automated services
Desirable
- Have developed in more than one language and ready to pivot to any language/framework
- Prior experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with Spring Boot / Bash programming skills
- Startup mentality
- BS/MS degree (Computer Science or Math) or equivalent level of proven professional proficiency
What the job involves
- Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms!
- Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code
- Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing
- Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment
- Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Insurance is an age-old industry built on ancient technology. While the power and revenues of these companies remains large, they have seen relative costs rises as their backend technology becomes dated.
Guidewire is helping Property and Casualty insurers come into the 21st century by providing mission-critical software that delivers on the cloud. The company is now focusing on working intimately with their impressive customer community in order to iterate on their cloud offerings.
While the company has had major success in enabling this cloud transition, the providers of tomorrow will likely be built with different infrastructure altogether. Guidewire will hope that it can leverage its expertise and data to ensure it can continue to provision additional technology services to even the most forward-looking providers.
Following the company's announcement to purchase up to $400 million of its outstanding shares, the company's stock prices have remained encouraging. With an almost $6 billion valuation as of February 2023, the company is well set for continued growth.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2008
$0.8m
SERIES C
Sep 2007
$24m
SERIES C
Total funding: $24.8m
Company benefits
- Incentive Programs
- Retirement savings plans
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Employee assistance program
- Annual wellness reimbursement
- Access to wellness resources
- Flexible Working
- Generous paid time-off programs
- Three volunteer days each year
- Ample paid leave for all new parents
- Personal day of rest with My Day
- Continual Development Opportunities
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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Founders
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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