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If you're passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide's Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

The Consultant Software Engineer will support Nationwide's Excess & Specialty Surplus BSA within the Order of the Phoenix team, supporting the Wholesale ExpressConnect 2.0 application. ExpressConnect 2.0 is built on Guidewire InsuranceNow and provides core contract-underwriting capabilities, including submission, rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance, and policy maintenance. The role will partner closely with business analysts, technology analysts, quality engineers, architects, product leaders, Guidewire, and dependent data and integration teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions for Excess, CPP, and related commercial products.

This is an attractive opportunity for an engineer who wants meaningful ownership of a highly visible, business-critical insurance platform. The OOTP team delivers product enhancements, rating and form changes, API capabilities, technical-debt remediation, security improvements, cloud and Guidewire upgrades, and production support.

The team's work directly supports Nationwide's Excess & Specialty business and has contributed to more than $1.4 billion in direct written premium. Candidates will also join a collaborative agile team that actively uses modern engineering practices and emerging tools, including GitHub Copilot and Glean for unit-test development, requirements analysis, test-case generation, API security reviews, and developer productivity.

The most important technical competencies for this role are hands-on experience with Guidewire InsuranceNow or a comparable property and casualty policy-administration platform; strong Java and object-oriented software-development skills; experience designing, developing, testing, and troubleshooting REST APIs and system integrations; practical knowledge of DevSecOps, Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, secure coding, and vulnerability remediation; and strong diagnostic and testing skills across user-interface, API, integration, rating, forms, and policy-lifecycle functionality. These skills will be applied to configure and extend Guidewire functionality, implement rating and underwriting rules, support API consumers and integrations, improve automated and unit-test coverage, troubleshoot production and test-environment issues, and help prepare the application for Guidewire Cloud Platform modernization.

On a typical day, the Consultant Software Engineer will participate in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, three-amigo discussions, and technical design sessions; analyze business requirements and translate them into maintainable code or configuration; develop, test, debug, document, and deploy software changes; review code and collaborate with developers, quality engineers, analysts, and business partners; investigate defects, incidents, vulnerabilities, and integration issues; and support release preparation, deployment validation, change management, and post-release monitoring. The engineer will also contribute to technical-debt reduction, API and application documentation, continuous-improvement efforts, knowledge sharing, and mentoring other team members while managing assigned priorities, dependencies, deadlines, and deliverables.

Preferred Skills:

Guidewire Insurance Now; extensive experience in API development and apigee; experience in code and configuration management of multiple development branches; extensive experience with DevOps Tools like GitHubActions (and GitHubCopilot) and Harness

Job Description Summary

If you're enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!
As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.

• Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.

• Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.

• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.

• Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.

• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.

Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage,paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00