Senior Software Engineer, Guidewire
Spark, Cloud Data Platform
$125-180k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Back-end software for P&C insurance
Be an early applicant
Back-end software for P&C insurance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$125-180k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To constantly improve, so insurance companies can successfully respond to customer needs in a world where technology and risk are changing dramatically.
Role
Who you are
- Do you have prior experience in building data platforms/data lake and analytics SaaS services in the public cloud with expertise in modern Big Data stack (Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink, Hive etc.)
- 8+ years' experience working in a similar Senior Software Engineer role within a data platform/data engineering team
- Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems
- Experience with stream processing using Spark
- Ability to design large-scale distributed systems
- Prior experience in building data platforms using Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive ..) on the public cloud
- Excellent programming skills in Java
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms)
- Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
- Eager to learn new things and passionate about technology!
- Comfortable working with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform
- Extensive experience working on a public cloud-like AWS
- Strong technical interpersonal skills
- Expertise in Spark or Flink, Kafka, and Hadoop ecosystem
- Have developed in more than one language and ready to pivot to any language/framework
- Understand microservices architecture patterns pattern like Service Discovery/API Gateway/Domain Driven Design etc
- Experience with containers technology
- Ability to work in an agile fast-paced environment
- BS or MS degree (Computer Science or Math)
Desirable
- AWS (EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis)
- Debezium
- ELK
- Experience in building SaaS/PaaS on AWS/GCP/Azure
- AI/ML
What the job involves
- This team owns, builds, and operates Guidewire’s cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS offerings
- The Guidewire Data Platform is an enterprise-grade, internet-scale, and cloud-native Big Data platform targeted to be best-in-class in enabling our customers with mission-critical insights and decision-making capabilities
- The platform is designed to support all our analytics, data science, and data applications. Guidewire’s data platform already processes Billions of real-time data to provide a rich set of AI/ML SaaS solutions
- You will work in a highly collaborative environment building next-generation platforms and services using the latest and greatest cutting-edge & bleeding-edge technologies
- You will have fun building cloud-native, enterprise-grade, and internet-scale platforms and SaaS applications
- Hands-on coding and implementation of high-performance Spark applications, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed computing and data processing
- Designing and optimizing Spark applications
- Design cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS services
- Own architecture and provide technical leadership to multiple teams
- Hands-on coding>60% of the time
- Design and build large-scale real-time stream processing systems
- Design and develop micro-services and analytics SaaS solutions
- Own scalability, availability, and data security
- Own, tackle & resolve code defects
- Mentor junior developers in standards and best practices!
Our take
Insurance is an age-old industry rooted in ancient technology. Despite the substantial power and revenue of these companies, their backend systems have become outdated, leading to rising relative costs. The challenge of modernizing such entrenched systems has been a significant hurdle for many insurers.
Guidewire is at the forefront of transforming Property and Casualty insurance by offering cutting-edge software solutions delivered via the cloud. The company is dedicated to evolving its offerings through close collaboration with its extensive customer base. This intimate engagement helps Guideire refine and enhance its cloud solutions to better meet the needs of it sclients.
Despite its successes in facilitating the cloud transition, the future may see the emergence of insurance providers built on entirely different infrastructures. Guidewire's ability to adapt and leverage its expertise and adapt will be crucial for maintaining its role as a leading technology provider.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2008
$0.8m
SERIES C
Sep 2007
$24m
SERIES C
Total funding: $24.8m
Company values
- Integrity: We build and maintain honest, candid, and caring relationships with clients, potential customers, partners, investors, and of course, each other!
- Rationality: All we do is supported by factual evidence—whether it’s building awesome products, making decisions, or communicating with each other
- Collegiality: We’re in it together—so we’re all equal. We work in professional harmony, with respect, without arrogance, and as part of a structure where responsibility is shared and owned by all of us
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
Mike Rosenbaum
(CEO, not founder)Prior to Guidewire, they led Product Management and Go-To-Market Strategy for core CRM products at Salesforce and served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer.
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