Senior Software Engineer - Backend - San Mateo, CA
San Mateo, CA

Job Description

Guidewire's development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Senior 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.

Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You'll work alongside intelligent colleagues who've checked their egos at the door. We've built a strong culture, and we're looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have:

* 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

Key qualifications include experience with

* Core Java
* Familiarity with Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Unit/Integration Testing, etc
* Experience with microservices architecture and containers
* Experience building secure software and knowledge of security practices
* Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles
* Experience working with Open Source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, jBPM, and others
* Strong understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus
* Agile development practices
* Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs
* Cloud Services (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
* Technical design and leadership of features from inception to release
* Mentoring less experienced engineers
* Effective collaboration with different stakeholders while leading features (e.g. Architects, PMs, PgMs)
* Maintaining and promoting a healthy codebase and ensuring high quality of products

A typical candidate has a Computer Science degree or equivalent.

The ideal candidate will share our core values: Collegiality, Integrity, and Rationality.

Collegiality - We value strong teams. We work together as professional equals. We strive to continuously improve our processes and make realistic assumptions to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. We are trusted to manage our own time. We value ideas, not titles. We welcome and consider contrary opinions.

Integrity - We insist on truthful relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do.

Rationality - We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We believe in testing. We never assume that we're building software the "best" way, and constantly seek to improve our processes.

See and hear from our employees at https://careers.guidewire.com/

Senior Software Engineer

About Guidewire

Guidewire exists to deliver the industry platform that P&C insurers rely upon to adapt and succeed in a time of accelerating change-and to ensure that every customer succeeds in the journey. We provide the software, services, and partner ecosystem to enable our customers to run, differentiate, and grow their business.

Guidewire Insurance Platform is the P&C industry platform that unifies software, services, and partner ecosystem to power our customers' business. Insurance Platform provides the standard upon which insurers can engage their customers, optimize their operations, drive smart decisions, and innovate quickly. We are privileged to serve more than 350 P&C insurers in 32 countries. We invest heavily in R&D to build a technology platform that combines three elements-core processing, data and analytics, and digital engagement-to enhance insurers' ability to engage and empower their customers and employees.

Guidewire is a leading provider of core systems that span the insurance lifecycle - underwriting, policy administration, billing, and claims management. Guidewire delivers the software that property and casualty (P/C) insurers need to adapt and succeed in a time of rapid industry change - and to ensure that every customer succeeds in their journey.

Guidewire InsuranceSuite is currently positioned in the Leaders quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for P&C Core Platforms, North America.". InsuranceNow is positioned in the Challengers quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for P&C Core Platforms, North America."

Guidewire was honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award as One of the Best Places to Work in 2018. Guidewire is a mid-sized company, headquartered in Foster City, CA, with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.guidewire.com.

Intermediate to Senior