Produce high-quality, modular code while creatively solving game technology issues. Meet production deadlines and proactively address tasks, ensuring feedback on code quality is provided and accepted throughout the development process.

• Work on latest edge Cloud computing to solve difficult, manual and repeatable tasks for users adopting Cloud technologies like AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft and more • Use the latest trends on building SaaS applications using multitenancy, scalability large data volumes / Big Data and more • Develop and expand our portfolio to support most popular Cloud apps (200+) • Develop understanding of not just software development, but also how to design, develop and launch a product from concept to high customer use. • Manage multiple engineering projects and ensure successful delivery of products on time and within budget • Lead a team of engineers and provide guidance on technical issues • Collaborate with other teams such as product, design, and customer support to ensure smooth product development and delivery • Ensure coding standards, best practices, and security protocols are followed by the team • Hire, train, and mentor engineers and support staff • Evaluate and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve the engineering process • Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors and partners to ensure projects are completed successfully • Must have successfully delivered at least two projects end-to-end. • Oversight of the full software development lifecycle required for a group of developers and testers in an agile environment. • Leading staff to implement clients in the most efficient, time driven manner. The manager is responsible for the total quality of the technical deliverables in their domain, making sure that they are secure, defect-free. • Mentoring technical staff during projects to ensure continuous improvement. Includes working with each resource to define and act upon career paths and obtain appropriate training. Is responsible for the hiring, training, staff development, performance appraisals, corrective action and pay review of technical personnel. • Developing and establishing department standards and procedures. • Recommends the most efficient ways to ensure best implementation practices of new upgraded products. • Evaluates and reports progress and results.

Role Description Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is seeking a motivated technical professional to join our organization as a ‘Software Developer I’ and contribute to building and enhancing modern applications, including proprietary insurance software solutions. In this role, you’ll work across the full development lifecycle—partnering with experienced engineers and business stakeholders to design, develop, and support high-quality software. This role is ideal for a junior developer who is eager to learn, grow their technical skillset, and take on new challenges. We’re committed to supporting your career development through hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to expand your expertise in a collaborative, team-oriented environment. - Prepare, design and implement software for moderate to complex custom developed applications or Guidewire products and integrate those applications with other custom or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications. - Participate in creating and maintaining plans to develop custom software, Guidewire products, and integration with other applications. - Estimate level of effort and elapsed time to design, implement, and test software. - Document, implement and unit test code based on approved designs. - Provide periodic status of deliverables, level of effort, and timeframes to completion. - Troubleshoot, as required, problems with software in production. - Provide input into, and help manager develop and then implement own personal training plan. - Formally document designs using established documentation standards. - Plan and implement production rollout of software upgrades to custom developed and Guidewire products. - Collaborate with external consultants and developers on large scale projects. - Guide business department personnel in technical and business capability of software applications. Qualifications - Four-year college degree, preferably in CS, engineering or other technical field, or equivalent experience. - 1+ years software development experience. - Familiarity with formal software development processes and best practices. - Familiarity with software package selection processes. - Hands-on experience as a software application developer using different application software architectures (e.g. MVC, client server, etc.). - Experience coding with Java, J2EE, GOSU or .NET or other object-oriented technologies. - Implementation experience in at least one full life-cycle implementations. - Experience translating business requirements into concise technical design documents. - Knowledge of database constructs and experience with SQL. - Experience writing business rules, interpreting XMLs and making user interface design changes. - Demonstrated ability to design, configure, and test software products. - Clear, effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to actively listen, problem solve, and communicate effectively with both technical and business users. - Demonstrated experience working both as an individual contributor and as part of a team. Requirements - Graduate degree in technical discipline (preferred). - Familiarity with agile methodology (preferred). - Experience with MS SQL Server (preferred). - Property and casualty insurance experience (preferred). - Guidewire Insurance Suite (preferred). - Any IT certification (preferred). Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Java - Java EE - Java Web Services (SOAP) and/or RESTful - Subversion, Git - Design Patterns - Guidewire - .Net/C# - JBoss ESB Benefits - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, group life, AD&D, and dependent life insurance coverage. - Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with a generous annual HSA employer contribution. - A 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching contributions up to 6%, in addition to a pension plan that begins vesting at 5 years of employment. - Active support for professional growth, including ongoing training and professional development opportunities sponsored by TWIA, support to obtain professional certifications, and a tuition reimbursement program. - Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and personal days. - Flexible scheduling to support work-life balance.

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and OpenTofu on Azure, following IaC practices the whole team can review and trust. • Operate AKS clusters, including Helm releases, ingress/TLS configuration, cert-manager, and Gateway API CRDs. • Improve CI/CD pipelines and GitLab deployment automation so product teams can ship with more speed and less risk. • Contribute to the Developer Internal Platform: golden paths, self-service templates, and tooling that reduces how much product engineers need to know about infrastructure. • Support observability, alerting, and incident response for shared services. That includes dashboards, runbooks, and joining the on-call rotation over time. • Harden security patterns across identity, access control, secrets, private networking, and vulnerability scanning. • Work directly with product teams to help them get what they need from the platform without becoming infrastructure experts. • Write and maintain doc-as-code runbooks and operational guides the broader engineering org actually uses. • Use AI tools to move faster on scripting, research, and debugging. Review outputs critically and keep sensitive data out of them. • Show up in design discussions, flag operational risks early, and give useful feedback in code and infrastructure reviews.