Guidewire Developer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced React Native Developer with hands-on expertise in developing and optimizing tvOS applications. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills in React Native, a deep understanding of mobile app architecture, and prior experience with tvOS and focus navigation on Apple TV.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain React Native applications for iOS and Android platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations across both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for a native-like experience.
• Engage with the open-source community to encourage and contribute to key software fixes and improvements.
• Write and maintain clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Create and execute automated tests to ensure product quality.
• Transition existing React web applications to React Native.
• Implement pixel-perfect UI designs and smooth animations for enhanced user experience.
• Integrate third-party APIs and SDKs.
• Ensure consistent UX across Android, iOS, and tvOS platforms.
• Release and manage applications on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Write performant applications optimized for low-end devices.
• Utilize debugging and development tools such as React DevTools and Charles Proxy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing React Native applications.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, or ClojureScript (ES6+ syntax).
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Expertise in managing third-party dependencies and resolving dependency conflicts.
• Experience with native build tools such as Xcode and Gradle.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, document request models, and offline storage mechanisms.
• Familiarity with automated testing suites and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong skills in architecting and building React Native applications with clean architecture.
• Experience maintaining UX consistency across multiple platforms.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with react-native-tvos and focus-navigation for Apple TV / tvOS.
• Knowledge of AVPlayer (iOS) and ExoPlayer (Android).

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

Skills required – Angular, ionic

What you'll do:

• Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development:  Angular, ionic, Node, TypeScript, JavaScript, Apache Cordova, RESTful APIs and more
• Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible
• Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Automate feature testing and contribute UI testing framework
• Become a subject matter expert for our mobile applications
• Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off
• Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

• Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.
• A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.
• A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.
• Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.
• Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient with Apache Cordova framework
• Built or maintained custom Cordova plugin
• Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS
• Understanding of Apple certificate and profile management
• Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers
• Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions.
• May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm.
• The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages.
• Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Review code of development team to ensure quality and adherence to best practices and standards.
• Mentor junior developers to develop their skills and build strong talent.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required with Masters, or equivalent experience preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• 7+ Years of Active Development Experience/ Expertise in Java/J2EE Based Applications proven ability with Hibernate, JPA, Spring, Spring MVC
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of IBM MQ and messaging protocols such as JMS
• Understanding of Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo and Maven
• Experience with UI frameworks - Angular, NodeJS and NPM is a plus
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular) is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology

• Strong experience of Angular 2+ and above along with other technologies like HTML5, CSS, jQuery, AJAX with good knowledge of ECMA Scripts.
• Strong knowledge of JS Fundamentals.
• Design & development of Angular applications as per desired specifications, along with experience in frameworks/libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, Typescript etc.
• Architecture design, development, testing and maintenance of Web Apps, Implementation based on Angular Application MVC Patterns.
• Own end to end product modules/features (from the requirement to going live)- Design & code review, troubleshoot & help team members on issues.
• Gather requirements by interacting directly with the end-users.
• Research on open source framework/technology required for developing the feature/application.

1.       Strong knowledge in Front end scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Jquery

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.