Digital Developer Frontend Consultant - guidewire
Summary
Frontend consultant on Guidewire's PS–GDC Digital team in Kuala Lumpur, building and enhancing web-based digital insurance experiences (quote & buy journeys, self-service and agent/broker portals) using Jutro, React, TypeScript, and InsuranceSuite Cloud APIs within an agile project team.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Digital Developer to join our PS – GDC Digital team in Kuala Lumpur. You will develop and enhance web-based digital experiences (e.g., quote & buy journeys, self-service portals, agent/broker portals) for insurers using Jutro, React, and InsuranceSuite Cloud APIs.
In this role, you will work closely with UX designers, business analysts, architects, and other developers to deliver high-quality, maintainable solutions that meet customer and business needs.
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 Responsibilities
- Implement and enhance digital applications using Jutro / React / TypeScript / JavaScript / HTML / CSS based on UX designs, technical specs, and user stories.
- Integrate digital applications with InsuranceSuite and other back-end systems using RESTful APIs, SDKs, and configuration.
- Configure and extend out-of-the-box Jutro components, schemas, and design tokens to support customer brand, products, and business rules.
- Participate in estimation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and reviews as part of an agile project team.
- Write clean, testable, and performant code; create and maintain unit tests (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library) for key components and flows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve defects across development, stabilization, UAT, and warranty phases.
- Collaborate with UX designers to ensure technical feasibility of designs and provide feedback on edge cases and constraints.
- Work with integration and core product teams to design and consume APIs in a way that minimizes coupling and supports maintainability.
- Contribute to project and technical documentation (e.g., design decisions, API usage, configuration notes, runbooks).
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English; able to discuss trade-offs and explain technical decisions.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience in front-end or full-stack web development.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript and a modern front-end framework — ideally React.
- Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3, responsive layout, and component-based UI architectures.
- Experience working with RESTful APIs (consuming, handling responses, error handling, authentication).
- Exposure to enterprise or B2B web applications; comfort working with complex business logic and workflows.
- Familiarity with source control and CI/CD practices (e.g., Git, pull requests, branching, basic pipelines).
- Experience working in agile teams and collaborating with BAs, QA, UX, and architects.
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English; able to discuss trade-offs and explain technical decisions.