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Sr. SW Eng, Web UI Framework Guidewire Software
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Are you an expert in Ajax development? Do you enjoy building UI frameworks with cutting edge Web 2.0 technologies? Would you appreciate a ground floor opportunity where you get to define the roadmap for our client-side performance test strategy? If so, we would like to talk to you.
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. The software we build must be able to work reliably with significant data volumes and under heavy load. Our applications are highly configurable, and we need to test out-of-the-box configurations as well as common or risky customizations. We are looking for thoughtful, creative and highly-skilled engineers who can help us identify and fix potential performance bottlenecks in our client UI layer. We're particularly interested in engineers who would enjoy developing tools to improve and expedite our performance tuning work.
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 at
If you are happiest when coding, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
This is a hands-on development role with our Web framework development team in the Platform organization. A successful developer in the Web team would have the following characteristics:
- 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 unit tests
- Curiosity and motivation to pick up new technologies and programming techniques
- Hands-on designing features and writing code
We care most about your critical thinking skills and technical talent. Prior experience with one or more of the following is desired.
- Experience with Ajax libraries such as Ext JS (Sencha), Dojo, GWT, or JQuery
- Knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS and cross browser development
- Overall understanding of web architecture and UI frameworks
- Knowledge of Java and other languages such as Gosu
- Experience with Web performance tools such as dynaTrace, Speed Tracer, Benchmark.js or jsPerf
- Ability to analyze the rendering and JavaScript performance bottleneck
- Experience writing automated UI tests with tools like Selenium or WebDriver
| Location: | Foster City, CA United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
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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