Java Spring Boot with Guidewire

Apptoza Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptoza Inc. is seeking a Java Spring Boot with Guidewire capable SRE for a full-time role in Toronto with remote flexibility. You will automate toil, respond to incidents, define SLOs/SLAs, and ensure observability across systems.

You will work with developers to build reliable architectures and participate in post-incident reviews. The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, testers, analysts, and stakeholders to improve system stability and scalability while maintaining high-quality

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java or an object-oriented language.
• Experience with REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, and API design principles.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or modern backend frameworks.
• Experience writing automated unit tests and debugging.
• Working knowledge of Git and PR-based workflows.
• Ability to read technical docs and investigate unfamiliar code.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to collaborate with developers, testers, analysts and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Automation and toil reduction through code and tooling.
• Incident response, on-call rotations, troubleshooting and restoration.
• SLOs/SLAs and error budgets management.
• Monitoring, observability setup using Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty.
• Post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis.
• Capacity planning based on traffic and usage trends.
• Cross-team collaboration to design resilient architectures.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Spring Boot

Automated testing

Git

Code reading

Communication

Collaborating with teams

Job description

Java Spring Boot with Guidewire ( Full time role )

Toronto, ON Remote

Key Responsibilities:

Automation and Reducing Toil: SREs write code and build tools to automate repetitive manual tasks (known as "toil"), aiming to spend roughly 50% of their time on software and engineering projects.

Incident Response and Management: They act as first-line responders for critical emergencies, handle on-call rotations, troubleshoot failures, and restore service.

SLOs, SLAs, and Error Budgets: They define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), managing "error budgets" to balance release speed with system stability.

Monitoring and Observability: They set up logging, metrics, and alerting systems (using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or PagerDuty) to detect problems before they impact users.

Post-Incident Reviews: They conduct root cause analysis (postmortems) to ensure failures do not repeat.

Capacity Planning: They analyze traffic and usage patterns to forecast future infrastructure and hardware needs.

Cross-Team Collaboration: They work alongside software developers to design resilient architectures and make applications more reliable by design.

Required Skills:

Primary qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing software in Java or a comparable object-oriented language.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, HTTP methods, JSON, and common API design principles.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or another modern backend framework.
• Experience writing automated unit tests and debugging application failures.
• Familiarity with Git and pull-request-based development.
• Ability to read technical documentation, investigate unfamiliar code, and explain findings clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to work collaboratively with developers, testers, analysts, and stakeholders.

Additional preferred qualifications

• Guidewire and commercial insurance: Guidewire PolicyCenter, Gosu, Guidewire Cloud APIs, commercial property and casualty insurance, underwriting, policy administration, or workflow automation.
• API design, integration, and security: OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON Schema, Apigee or another API gateway, API Developer Portal, OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, or certificate-based security.
• Event and data integration: Kafka, Schema Registry, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, or database migration tooling.
• Cloud delivery and engineering platforms: GitHub Actions, Harness, AWS, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, infrastructure as code, or comparable CI/CD and cloud technologies.
• Automated testing and partner integration: Postman, JUnit, Mockito, Playwright, or experience integrating multiple systems and external partners.