Job Description

The Guidewire Digital Practice is a group of highly motivated technology engineers, user experience designers, and domain experts working with insurance clients, InsurTechs and delivery partners in current, leading-edge technologies delivering exciting, customer-facing projects.

We are seeking a highly motivated Junior Front-end Developer looking to grow 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.

We’re committed to an inclusive workspace that embraces people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents.

As a Junior Developer in Professional Services, you will:

• Contribute to the design and development of web and mobile solutions using JavaScript, React, and Guidewire’s Jutro design system.

• Collaborate with UX designers and cross-functional teams to deliver single-page applications and digital services.

• Build familiarity with CSS, SASS, automated unit testing (Jest/Enzyme), and server-side technologies (JSON/RPC, REST).

• Learn from senior engineers and contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrate strong communication skills in German and English; additional languages are a plus.

• Support migration projects from AngularJS to React and leverage UX prototyping tools (Invision, Sketch) as needed.

• Travel for onsite client engagements as required (up to 50%).

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes

Key Qualifications:

• 1–2 years of software development experience with web technologies.

• Strong soft skills — communication, collaboration, and a willingness to learn.

• Working knowledge of React.

• BA in Informatics or equivalent.

• Experience or willingness to learn Guidewire’s Jutro design system.

Other Skills:

• Able to demonstrate experience with building web/mobile services and single-page applications

• Effective communication and collaboration skills and experience interacting with team members and project sponsors

• Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

• Strong English skills

Nice to have:

• Experience in the Insurance industry or in Consulting

• Additional technical skills beyond React (e.g. backend, testing frameworks, cloud)

• Exposure to Figma, Invision, Sketch, or other UX prototyping tools