Software Engineer III

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About You


You are a smart enthusiastic and results-oriented software engineer looking to work in an agile product development team that builds secure performant reliable and well-tested solutions for a complex domain. You are highly collaborative and passionate about building high-quality software. You understand how to mentor and coach others to solve hard engineering problems but you also love to roll up your sleeves and hammer out well-crafted code. 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 Youll Do:

• Collaborate with platform and product stakeholderssuch as Product Owners Architects and Engineering Managersto define and groom backlogs and direct platform and product evolution.

• Work on the design and delivery of complex features and services using agile methodologies with an emphasis on delivering functionality that is secure performant and reliable.

• Motivate peers and more junior engineers to reach outstanding levels of software delivery

• Mentor peers and more junior engineers in design code and software delivery best practice

• Define new processes to support engineering excellence as well as highlight and patch gaps in existing processes e.g. research champion and implement new testing tools and techniques

• Define organizational best practices and standards with senior engineers

• Live our core values of rationality collegiality and integrity.

• At Guidewire we foster a culture of curiosity innovation and responsible use of AIempowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What Were Looking For:

• Core Java expertise (three years experience minimum in a professional engineering role)

• History of outstanding software delivery

• Proficiency in industry design patterns

• Proven ability to design a complex feature or service with a small empowered cross-functional team

• Expert in developing and delivering features using agile development practices (Scrum TDD pair programming etc.)

• Practiced in continuous integration and continuous delivery and expert user of supporting build and code management tools (e.g. GitHub Jenkins TeamCity JUnit Karate TestCafe JaCoCo SonarQube)

• Good working knowledge of other programming and scripting languages (Kotlin Python bash)

• Capacity to quickly learn new technologies and understand their applications to engineering problems

• Strong leadership skills: can motivate others hold them accountable with compassion and mentor themboth synchronously and asynchronouslyin system design code quality and operational excellence

• Experience designing and incrementally improving processes for continuous software delivery

• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills

• 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

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation productivity and continuous improvement

Successful candidates rarely have every single thing were looking for. If youre 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 and follow us on Twitter: @GuidewirePandC.

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 its applicable to the position.