Guidewire Developer

Location(s)

Alpharetta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Downers Grove, Illinois, Jacksonville, Florida, Remote-CT, Remote-GA, Remote-IL, Remote-IN, Remote-OH, Remote-PA, Remote-TX, Remote-VA, Richardson, Texas

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.

We are seeking an experienced Guidewire Claim Center Developer to be a deep technical expert in the property & casualty insurance claim domain. In this role, you will design and code scalable solutions, influence architecture, and provide guidance through technical excellence – not people management. You will work on Guidewire Claim Center and its surrounding middleware (Java/Spring Boot, AWS SQS/SNS, AWS Lambdas, AWS PostgreSQL, etc…)

• 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
• Guidewire Claim Center experience is required
• Minimum of 8 years of developer experience with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
• 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
• Knowledge of auto insurance; commercial & personal auto lines a bonus
• 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
• Languages such as Java, Gosu, Kotlin, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Type Script
• Spring Boot and container orchestration (EKS/ECS)
• SQL and secure coding practices
• Cloud-native architecture and AWS services
• Build tools &app; dependency management using Maven or Gradle
• Frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue
• Responsive Design and Progressive Web Apps
• Build tools &app; 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 works in the Kemper office or can be remote if candidate is not local

The range for this position is $89,000 to $148,100. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location…