About Job

CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 0 - 3 yrs

Description

The Cloud Applications team at Guidewire is searching for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Software Engineer to build sophisticated solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry's complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. The product development team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer who is passionate about building high-quality software with a phenomenal team and improving the customer experience for millions of people who use our products every day.

As part of the Guidewire team, you will be working on some of the latest technologies in front-end development. We are focused on building the best solutions that allow our product vision, architectures, and ideas to constantly improve. We also always striving to optimize the processes that support our development. The successful candidate for this role will have an impact on the entire technology stack and will focus on building sophisticated web application interfaces geared for excellent usability and performance.

Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. 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.

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have: Enjoy working 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: Proficiency with web technologies, including JavaScript (ECMAScript 6 ), HTML5, CSS

Strong experience in market-leading JavaScript frameworks such as, React.js (preferred), Angular, etc.

Experience working in an Agile work environment and knowledge of Agile methodologies.

Experience in developing responsive applications with good architecture and UX.

Strong experience in contributing to architecture, design, and implementation of products

Expert at writing unit tests and testable components.

Experience building E2E automation scripts and tools to support the CI &CD pipeline.

Expert in design patterns and best coding practices.

Clear written communication and documentation skills.

Ability to mentor less experienced engineers

An aptitude for continuous learning and exploration of new technologies.

A typical candidate has a Computer Science degree or equivalent.