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Birmingham, AL

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How is compensation structured for commission software engineers, and how does it impact daily responsibilities?

Compensation for Commission Software Engineers is typically based on deliverables, project completion, or sales-related targets instead of a traditional fixed salary. This pay structure encourages a focus on productivity, innovation, and meeting client or project requirements efficiently. Daily responsibilities often include prioritizing tasks that have the highest impact on achieving set goals, collaborating closely with sales or project management teams, and ensuring deliverables meet quality standards. This model can be highly rewarding for engineers who are driven, resourceful, and comfortable managing their workload with a results-oriented mindset.

What is a commission software engineer?

A Commission Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software systems that calculate and track sales commissions. They work closely with sales, finance, and IT teams to ensure accurate commission payouts based on company policies and performance data. This role often involves programming, database management, and automation to streamline commission processes. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are crucial, as errors in commission calculations can impact employee compensation and company finances.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a commission software engineer, and why are they important?

A Commission Software Engineer needs strong programming abilities, an understanding of software development life cycles, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. Familiarity with tools such as Git, Jira, and development frameworks, along with relevant certifications like AWS Certified Developer or Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer, can be advantageous. Exceptional communication, self-motivation, and the ability to work independently while managing deadlines are important soft skills. These skills and qualities are crucial for delivering high-quality solutions and maximizing earnings in a performance-driven, commission-based environment.

Do commission software engineers make commissions?

Commission software engineers typically do not earn commissions as part of their compensation. Their salary is usually fixed or includes bonuses based on project or company performance, rather than sales commissions. Their role focuses on developing and maintaining software systems rather than sales activities.
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Software Engineer III - Cloud Platform

Guidewire Software

Birmingham, AL • On-site, Remote

$124K - $210K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

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Job description

Summary

Are you a result-oriented, polyglot programmer using 12-factor app methodology to craft your Cloud products? If so, we would like to meet you!
Guidewire provides outstanding software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We deliver the core applications that Property and Casualty (P/C) insurers use to build their products, sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. We deliver SaaS solutions via Guidewire Cloud that enable our customers to rapidly innovate and drive measurable value. Guidewire Cloud is powered by the highly resilient Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, with SLAs backed by experienced Guidewire teams and SaaS-certified partners spanning application management, system administration, security and compliance, upgrades, QA testing, health checks, and other services.

Job Description

What you get to do

  • Making an impact with your contribution in building the industry leading cloud platform as a service using Kubernetes as backbone in AWS cloud

  • Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms!

  • Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code.

  • Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing.

  • Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment.

  • Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters.

  • 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.

What you bring to Guidewire:

  • 4-6 years of relevant work experience

  • A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange

  • Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc.

  • Linux debugging skills

  • Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent

  • Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)

  • Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles

  • Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps

  • Reinforce sound repeatable automated services.

  • 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.

Nice to Have

  • Software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent

  • Container technologies: Docker, Linux debugging

  • Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success

  • Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment.

What you should know about this role:

  • This is an hybrid-based position with the flexibility to WFH as applicable

  • This position regularly involves pair programming.

  • How our CCS group operates: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cloud-common-services-engineer-c67cf3debc57

  • What the general Interview process will be: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/preparing-to-interview-with-guidewire-cloud-common-services-team-7d0697592929

  • Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-56a0ff176032, https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-part-2-of-2-ba22c9888bb8

  • Deeply involved in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS - infrastructure as code using technologies such as EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang. In addition handle Observability of the Platform (logs, metrics and traces). (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/log-management-and-guidewire-cloud-platform-observability-73a033a34e9a)

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $210,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

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 Accommodations@guidewire.com. 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, e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com 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.

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.

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