Guidewire Developer - ClaimCenter

Location(s)
Alpharetta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, P&C-Butterfield Road-Downers Grove-IL-AAC, Remote-CT, Remote-FL, Remote-GA, Remote-IN, Remote-MD, Remote-MI, Remote-NC, Remote-NJ, Remote-NY, Remote-PA, Remote-RI, Remote-SC, Remote-TX, Remote-WI, St. Louis, Missouri

Details Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs.

By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

• Design robust, high-performance solutions across systems and services
• Serve as a key technical contributor on critical projects or initiatives within the property & casualty insurance claim domain
• Act as a resource for others by sharing deep technical knowledge and context - without formal leadership or management duties
• Evaluate and advocate for improvements in system architecture, technical standards, and development processes
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and product to align technical implementation with business needs
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate capabilities
• Enforce standard coding and security best practices
• Work within SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of developer experience with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity.
• Extensive current Guidewire Claim Center developer experience is required
• Languages such as Java, Gosu, Kotlin, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Type Script
• Knowledge of auto insurance; commercial or personal auto lines preferred
• Expert-level understanding of the full SDLC
• Ability to identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies in the software development lifecycle and propose improvements
• Deep familiarity with wide range of software design patterns and architectural principles, applying them to design scalable and maintainable systems
• Expertise with most of the following:
  • Standard design patterns
  • CI/CD, Containerization and Orchestration
  • Unit testing and integration testing
  • Version control systems (e.g. Git)
  • RESTful APIs and microservices
  • AI Prompt/Agentic Engineering
  • Monitoring and logging via tools like App Dynamics and Splunk
  • Spring Boot and container orchestration (EKS/ECS)
  • SQL and secure coding practices
  • Cloud-native architecture and AWS services
  • Build tools & dependency management using Maven or Gradle
  • Frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue
  • Responsive Design and Progressive Web Apps
  • Build tools & packaging managers such as Webpack/NPM
  • Guidewire Insurance Suite (Claim Center, Policy Center, Billing Center)
  • Guidewire Insurance Suite’s PCF, message queues, business rules
  • Screen design using Guidewire Insurance Suite’s PCF
  • Guidewire Insurance Suite’s database model
  • Guidewire Insurance Suite’s assignment rules
  • Integrations with internal systems and vendors using Guidewire Insurance Suite’s REST APIs, messaging queues, and batches
  • Troubleshooting and resolving Insurance Suite issues
  • Guidewire Profiler to analyze performance issues
• Guidewire Cloud Insurance Suite Professional Developer certification is preferred but not required

This position can work remotely from a US based home if candidate is not local to a Kemper office.

The range for this position is $89000 to $148100.…