Junior Front-End Consultant, GSC

Summary
Junior Front-End Consultant, GSC

Guidewire Services Centre (GSC) was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewire products, currently being used by customers who are household names globally. GSC is seeking highly motivated graduate/junior Digital front-end developers that are looking to work with current, leading-edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects to join the team in Kuala Lumpur.

Job Description
What We Do?

Guidewire's market-leading Digital products enable property & casualty (P&C) insurance carriers to build and implement leading-edge sales and self-service digital capabilities. These capabilities provide agents and policy holders interfaces to quickly and easily create and service insurance policies. We are looking for enthusiastic graduate/junior developers who are passionate about building high quality software, and working with great people to improve our customers' experience for millions of users worldwide.

You will learn and master Guidewire's Digital products in order to implement and develop them for customer use. Each new member of the team will undergo Guidewire Digital Training prior to working on a project. Mentors will also be assigned to allow new team members to develop their technical skill and learn the Digital Best Practices.

As a Digital Consultant, you will be creating fresh, cutting-edge user interfaces for the insurance world. You will be working with Guidewire Jutro, our design system and front-end framework built on React, a leading front-end technology. Jutro helps developers smoothly build Guidewire applications for clients and gives designers the power to make user interfaces that are both unified and consistent. Jutro consultants will collaborate with user experience (UX) designers, business analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation team members to deliver end-to-end solutions for the P&C insurers.

Successful Consultants At Guidewire Are Typically

• A result-driven, and tenacious problem solver with a unique blend of technical aptitude
• Possesses business acumen and demonstrates strong interpersonal abilities
• Interested in building genuine relationship with the customers and work in a role that values communication and effective presentation skills
• Curious and internally motivated to constantly improve
• Effective communicators, ability to articulate perspectives and support ideas with substantiated reasoning, coupled with intellectual humility and a strong desire for continuous learning

Who Are We Looking For?

• Fresh/Recent graduate with BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from a third level or higher education institution
• 0-1 year of software development experience using web technologies
• Knowledge of JavaScript and interest in developing a career in front-end development and consulting, as well as learning React and Jutro, Guidewire's proprietary design system and front-end framework
• Knowledge of CSS, SASS, and other look-and-feel technologies
• Knowledge of unit testing fundamentals or similar frameworks
• Exposure in software development lifecycle e.g. Agile methodology
• Eligible to work in Malaysia and available for critical business travel if needed
• Good English communication skills, proficiency in any other languages e.g. Chinese or Japanese language (spoken and written) is an added advantage

The ideal candidate will share and be delighted by our core values: Collegiality, Integrity, and Rationality.

• Collegiality - We value strong teams. We work together as professional equals. We strive to continuously improve our processes and make realistic assumptions to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. We are trusted to manage our own time. We value ideas, not titles. We welcome and consider contrary opinions.
• Integrity - We insist on truthful relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do.
• Rationality - We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We believe in testing. We never assume that we're building software the "best" way, and constantly seek to improve our processes.

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 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.