Summer 2024 Software Engineering Intern @ Guidewire

Interns must be able to commute to the office 2x a week.

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At Guidewire, we pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative company culture. As part of our intern program, our talented engineers will train and mentor you as you engage in meaningful work on our industry leading software products.

Who are we and what do we do?

Guidewire is a rapidly growing software company that delivers the industry standard platform that Property and Casualty insurers rely upon to stay ahead of the curve in a time of accelerating change. We provide software, services, and partner ecosystem that empower our customers to run, differentiate and grow their business.

What will I be doing?

We are offering a 12-week (June to August) summer internship program for software engineers in 2024. The program is designed to give students actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science an opportunity to write software and interact with others in a real-world business environment.

You will be part of our Product Development team, where you will work with a dedicated mentor and other fellow interns on a software project that adds value to our mission here at Guidewire.

Guidewire is an Agile development shop: we do iterative development, break features into stories, work in priority order, encourage pair programming and more. Our focus is to make the highest quality software for our customers and deliver it on time. We spend quality time focusing on software development as a craft. If you intern here, you will collaborate with teammates, mentors, and stakeholders while learning what it means to be a professional software engineer.

Intern Requirements:

Currently enrolled in a BS or MS program in Computer Science, with an expected graduation date from Spring 2024 to Spring 2025
Programming in Java, or other modern OO programming languages
Algorithms and object-oriented design
Agile, Test-driven development
Cloud native infrastructure – (scripting, AWS services like EKS, Aurora/RDS, VPC)
Back end technologies – RESTful API concepts, Microservices
Web-based applications and technologies
Good to have: experience with JavaScript (ES6+) and HTML5/CSS3, Javascript application frameworks such as React (preferred), Angular, or Vue

Other types of things that we like to cultivate:

Curiosity based on genuine love of technology and solving tough technical problems
Accountability based on an earnest desire to do what is expected without prompting
Kindness and respect for your fellow teammates

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 www.guidewire.com 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.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to (650) 356-4940 or [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

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