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-OH, 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.
We are seeking an experienced Guidewire ClaimCenter 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 ClaimCenter and its surrounding middleware (Java/SpringBoot, AWS SQS/SNS, AWS Lambdas, AWS PostgreSQL, etc…).
Position Responsibilities:
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)
Position Qualifications:
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 ClaimCenter developer experience is required
Languages such as Java, Gosu, Kotlin, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
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 AppDynamics 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 InsuranceSuite (ClaimCenter, PolicyCenter, BillingCenter)
Guidewire InsuranceSuite’s PCF, message queues, business rules
Screen design using Guidewire InsuranceSuite’s PCF
Guidewire InsuranceSuite’s database model
Guidewire InsuranceSuite’s assignment rules
Integrations with internal systems and vendors using Guidewire InsuranceSuite’s REST APIs, messaging queues, and batches
Troubleshooting and resolving InsuranceSuite issues
Guidewire Profiler to analyze performance issues
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