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Solution Engineer (US Remote Option)
- Department Go To Market
- Location Birmingham, AL
Do you enjoy rapid prototyping and creating proofs of concept to share with prospective clients? Does the challenge of working on and supporting diverse and unique sales opportunities interest you? If so, we would love to see your background! The Solution Engineering team at Guidewire is just as much of a software development team as it is an extension of Solution Consulting. You would be a part of a team that delivers complex software requirements to meet emerging and evolving market demands.
Our team is responsible for delivering creative, solution-focused demonstration implementations to the Sales organization for presentation to prospective customers. We are currently growing our team to dedicate more time and effort to support our sales efforts.
This position involves working directly with members of the Solution Consulting and development teams to configure our sophisticated solution demonstrations. For this role we need critical problem solvers - people who can rapidly consume domain knowledge, and design and configure comprehensive functionality in Guidewire’s InsuranceNow (a unified core, digital, data, and analytics platform for Property and Casualty Insurance Industry). We place high value on being able to contribute in a fast-paced environment in a multitude of development and operational related tasks.
The successful candidate will have 3+ years of software development experience or configuring packaged application software, with an ability to grow into a product lead position. You must be a self-starter and able to perform with minimal direction while working in a diverse team environment following Agile processes for software development. You must have strong technical skills, such as the ability to code in a front-end or back-end programming language or full-stack; debug complex issues; or troubleshoot environment configuration issues.
Although this is not a customer-facing role, it may include direct participation in sales opportunities and proofs of concept: designing, developing, and configuring creative and innovative solutions to prospects’ requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Implement new features requirements gathering through implementation, testing, and delivery from beginning to end
- Operate environment requests, troubleshooting the operational and functional issues during demo preparation
- Own, troubleshoot, and resolve defects
- Collaborate with other development organizations within the company - providing feature demos and documentation and participating in joint hands-on working sessions, hackathons, etc.
- Achieve results within strict timelines
- Documentation and knowledge sharing with the team
What you need to succeed
- Programming experience in J2EE, Servlet, JSP, Velocity, Spring framework
- Object-oriented programming fundamentals (inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, etc.)
- JavaScript, Html, XML
- Source Control and Collaborative Development Workflow (GIT, GitHub, Bitbucket)
- Understand agile development methodology
- Integration mechanisms (messaging, synchronous, asynchronous, REST API, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.)
- CloudOps/DevOps Experience
- Cloud services (AWS or Google)
- Docker, K8s
- CI and CD frameworks (Jenkins, Team City)
- MySQL
- Experience in data warehouse, BI tools
- Software testing and test frameworks
Bonus skills
- A Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Hands-on experience in Guidewire's InsuranceNow
- Property and Casualty Insurance Industry Experience (or even life/health)
- Experience in SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, FaaS
- Programming experience in ES6+, Typescript, React (Native), Spring Boot, Node.js, etc.
- Micro Service, cloud native software development experience
- GO, Ruby
- RDS, DynamoDB, NoSQL
- Machine Learning, Python, NLP
- AWS CloudFormation, Terraform
- Serverless, AWS Amplify, AppSync, Google CloudFunction, Firebase
- AWS Lambda, Redshift, Chatbot, IoT, Elastic Search, Google Analytics
- Observability and Monitoring tools
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.
Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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 it's applicable to the position.
Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to (650) 356-4940 or Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.
Talent rewards
The perks. The rewards. The good stuff.
We’re proud to shout about our awesome benefits packages. Holistic wellness is a big deal for us. We offer everything you need to support your work and, most importantly, your work-life balance. We’re committed to helping you be the best version of yourself. Inside and outside of work.
FINANCIAL
Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.
FLEXIBLE WORKING
Work in an environment where you’ll have the freedom and trust to make an impact, with time for your life outside of work.
DOWNTIME
Relax and kick back through our generous paid time-off programs. Make a difference in your community with three volunteer days each year. Take your own personal day of rest with My Day. We also offer 16 weeks of paid leave for all new parents.
CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT
We encourage self-directed learning and holistic wellness, giving you every chance to become a better version of yourself, both professionally and personally. At Guidewire, lifelong learning is here for the taking.