Guidewire
Software Engineer III
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Ireland - Dublin
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Core Java expertise (three years’ experience minimum in a professional engineering role)
- History of outstanding software delivery
- Proficiency in industry design patterns
- Proven ability to design a complex feature or service with a small, empowered, cross-functional team
- Expert in developing and delivering features using agile development practices (Scrum, TDD, pair programming, etc.)
- Practiced in continuous integration and continuous delivery and expert user of supporting build and code management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, JUnit, Karate, TestCafe, JaCoCo, SonarQube)
- Good working knowledge of other programming and scripting languages (Kotlin, Python, bash)
- Capacity to quickly learn new technologies and understand their applications to engineering problems
- Strong leadership skills: can motivate others, hold them accountable with compassion, and mentor them—both synchronously and asynchronously—in system design, code quality, and operational excellence
- Experience designing and incrementally improving processes for continuous software delivery
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills
- A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code
- Curiosity and an internal drive to learn and constantly improve
- Experience creating web services (SOAP, REST)
- Experience with cloud services a bonus, e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement
Full description
Summary
Job Description
About You
You are a smart, enthusiastic, and results-oriented software engineer looking to work in an agile product development team that builds secure, performant, reliable, and well-tested solutions for a complex domain. You are highly collaborative and passionate about building high-quality software. You understand how to mentor and coach others to solve hard engineering problems, but you also love to roll up your sleeves and hammer out well-crafted code. You are excited to contribute to our industry-leading platform, our award-winning products, and the processes we use to build, deliver, and support our platform and products.
Job DescriptionWhat You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with platform and product stakeholders—such as Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering Managers—to define and groom backlogs and direct platform and product evolution.
- Work on the design and delivery of complex features and services using agile methodologies with an emphasis on delivering functionality that is secure, performant, and reliable.
- Motivate peers and more junior engineers to reach outstanding levels of software delivery
- Mentor peers and more junior engineers in design, code, and software delivery best practice
- Define new processes to support engineering excellence as well as highlight and patch gaps in existing processes, e.g. research, champion, and implement new testing tools and techniques
- Define organizational best practices and standards with senior engineers
- Live our core values of rationality, collegiality, and integrity.
- At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.
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What We’re Looking For:
- Core Java expertise (three years’ experience minimum in a professional engineering role)
- History of outstanding software delivery
- Proficiency in industry design patterns
- Proven ability to design a complex feature or service with a small, empowered, cross-functional team
- Expert in developing and delivering features using agile development practices (Scrum, TDD, pair programming, etc.)
- Practiced in continuous integration and continuous delivery and expert user of supporting build and code management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, JUnit, Karate, TestCafe, JaCoCo, SonarQube)
- Good working knowledge of other programming and scripting languages (Kotlin, Python, bash)