Remote (USA)
Product Strategy/Full time/Remote
Guidewire is searching for a User Experience Engineer with expertise in designing, architecting, building and maintaining Saas User portals and dashboard visualizations. As a User Experience engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for the development behind our HazardHub customer portal and its NextGen counterpart. This is part of the the most comprehensive set of property risk data, casualty risk data, and hazard risk scoring in the P&C insurance industry.
You must have strong knowledge of User Experience patterns, portal development, react and related technologies. You’ll be joining a team of talented API, infra, Data and UX Engineers faced with an exciting mix of greenfield and legacy projects as HazardHub continues it’s maturation from startup to an Enterprise product within Guidewire. You’ll collaborate with Product management and other stakeholders tow build out and maintain both our new enterprise ready portal and it’s legacy counterpart.
Who We Are, What We Believe, & What We Build
Guidewire is the market leader that 400+ insurance companies trust to run their critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies and agents settling claims. We believe making a great decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists. Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to change insurance. There is a lot to be done!
Job Description
Responsibilities
As a part of a team, develop and maintain a User Portal for our APIs, serving both external clients and internal teams
Build frontend features in React (Typescript) using Guidewire’s internal UI component library
Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and testable components aligned with best practices
Collaborate with UX designers to bring wireframes to production ready experiences while ensuring consistency with industry standards
Collaborate with product stakeholders & backend engineers to deliver features that integrate seamlessly with our REST microservices (user management, reporting/billing, data services, authentication/authorization)
Participate in design/architecture discussions, providing input on user experience impacts & technical trade offs
Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
Conduct code reviews and work with peers to grow the team’s skills
Help bridge legacy systems with modern microservice architecture, ensuring a smooth transition
Requirements
5+ years of experience with enterprise-level user experiences
BS (in Computer Science or related field) or equivalent related work experience
Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React and Node.js, with deep knowledge of modern frontend development practices
Experience working with design systems and UI component libraries
Experiences integrating with REST microservice architectures
Solid understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library or equivalent)
Proficiency with SCM (Git), CI (GitHub Actions)
Experience with Cloud services such as GCP or AWS.
Experience with container / orchestration such as Docker, Kubernetes
Demonstrated ability to identify and adopt new technologies as well as the correct places to maintain current standards
Bonus
Experience building admin portals, developer portals, or usage/billing dashboards
Familiarity with RBAC models for fine-grained access control
Experience working with authentication/authorization flows

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000 - $247,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.
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 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, 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.
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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to 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 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
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

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