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Sr Software Engineer, Platform Guidewire Software
We are looking for skilled, critical thinking, creative, talented Software Engineers to join our platform development team. Our platform includes an MVC Web presentation layer, a cluster-safe persistent data layer, advanced performance tools, an inter-application messaging architecture, and a lot more. The Platform team writes most code in Java, though we use the Gosu language, too. The Platform team built the Gosu language at Guidewire to make us more productive, and it's now freely available at
Guidewire sells three enterprise web-based software products to insurance companies that offer Property and Casualty insurance. Our products share a core technology platform that the Guidewire Platform team develops. Our customers around the globe require a highly configurable and reliable software platform for their core systems. Because of the scale and flexibility, insurance software is surprisingly complex, difficult to get right, and provides many interesting and challenging software problems to solve.
Our development process is sustainable (no death marches), work/life balance friendly, and we pride ourselves on a calm, systematic, and rational approach to our business. See and hear from our employees
If you are happiest when coding, we would like to hear from you.
Successful Software Engineers on the Platform team at Guidewire typically have:
- A desire to work collaboratively in a small, cross-functional team
- Interest in modern development techniques, such as TDD, Scrum, pair programming, Kanban
- Passion for code quality that inspires writing and maintaining loads of unit tests
- Curiosity and motivation to pick up new technologies and programming techniques
- A desire for hands-on designing and writing code
We care most about your critical thinking skills and technical talent, however prior experience with a majority of the following is desired:
- Java
- A dynamic or functional language, such as Ruby, Groovy, Scala, Haskell or Lisp
- Web-based Enterprise applications built on popular application servers and commercial databases
- Test-driven development (TDD) using frameworks such as TestNG and JUnit
- Web Services (e.g., WSDL, SOAP, XML, REST, Axis)
- J2EE technologies (e.g., EJB, servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC, JMS, JMX)
- ORM technologies (e.g., Hibernate, JPA, JDO, HQL, XQuery, XPath)
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| Location: | Foster City, CA United States |
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Guidewire Software
As the number one provider of enterprise software applications to the property and casualty insurance industry, we beat our competitors (Accenture, SAP, and others) 9 times out of 10. Guidewire is an award-winning company both within the insurance industry and in the software technology space. Given our success and increasing demand for our products domestically and internationally, we continue to experience double-digit revenue growth. Guidewire has offices throughout the world, including in London, Munich, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Profitable Investors: Battery Ventures, Bay Partners, U.S. Venture Partners
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| Web Site: | www.guidewire.com |
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| Headquarters: | 2211 Bridgepointe Parkway, Ste 200 San Mateo, CA 94404 United States |
| Employees: | >100 |
| 2002 | |
| Industry: | Software |
| Guidewire Software is a profitable, privately held, and VC-backed enterprise software product development company that exclusively serves the 1.5 trillion dollar property and casualty insurance industry. Our products enable companies such as GEICO, Liberty Mutual, and Amica to efficiently run their high volume core operations, including underwriting, policy administration, claims, and billing. Our success can be directly attributed to the bright and extremely talented employees who make it all happen. If you are looking for an opportunity where your talents will not only be recognized and leveraged but also challenged, at a company that is grabbing significant market share in a 1.5 trillion dollar industry, then Guidewire is the place for you. We have an extremely low-turnover organization and 100 percent customer referenceability. |
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