Front-end Architect (German speaking)

Summary

Love solving sticky problems? Excited about crafting innovative solutions for a leading global software company in the Insurance space? Interested in working on digital solutions and services that touch everyone’s lives? We are a multidisciplinary Digital team working to make innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the business transformation within the insurance industry.

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 Digital (Front-end) technical architect 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.

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

As a Digital (Front-end) Architect in Professional Services, you will:

• Lead the design and development of web and mobile solutions using JavaScript, React (4-5+ years), and Guidewire’s Jutro design system.
• Collaborate with UX designers and cross-functional teams to deliver single-page applications and digital services.
• Apply expertise in CSS, SASS, automated unit testing (Jest/Enzyme), and server-side technologies (JSON/RPC, REST).
• Mentor and guide development teams, fostering 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:

• 5+ years of software development experience with web technologies.
• Proven leadership, interpersonal, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience or willingness to learn Guidewire’s Jutro design system.
• Insurance industry experience is a plus.

Other Skills:

• Insurance industry experience.
• 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:

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

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.

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.