Front End Developer Consultant - New College Grad - Toronto at Cyence | Powderkeg

Location: Canada - Toronto

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Delivery Services

Guidewire’s Services Centre was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewire’s products, currently being used by customers who are household names globally.

Guidewire is seeking a number of highly motivated Digital front-end implementation consultants that are looking to work with current, leading-edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects.

Guidewire's market-leading Digital products enable 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.

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 Guidewire SurePath Methodology and Digital Best Practices.

Essential Duties

Learn and master Guidewire's Digital products in order to perform implementation and development of our products for technical consulting.

The Digital consultants will be building new, innovative user interfaces for the insurance industry using Guidewire Jutro, Guidewire’s design system and front-end framework.

Jutro enables developers to seamlessly develop Guidewire applications for customers and empowers designers to create consistent and cohesive user experience designs.

These Jutro consultants will be collaborating with user experience, business analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation teams to deliver end-to- end solutions to the P&C industry.

Requirements

  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from third-level or higher education institution
  • Software development lifecycle exposure (AGILE) preferred
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills
  • 0-1 years 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 using Jest/Enzyme or similar frameworks

Other Skills / Experience:

  • Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver
  • Strong English skills
  • The position requires a unique blend of technical aptitude, business savvy, and interpersonal skills.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Front End Developer Consultant - New College Grad - Toronto
  • Company
    Cyence
  • Location
    San Mateo, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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