Specialized insurer serving 4.6M policies across auto, home, and life
Kemper operates a large-scale insurance platform built on Guidewire (BillingCenter and Insurance Suite) with a modernization layer of Python, Java, and AWS. The company is actively adopting Python for automation and GenAI features while maintaining a mature .NET/SQL backend. Hiring is overwhelmingly sales-focused (440 roles) relative to engineering (19), reflecting an agent-distribution model under pressure to expand field coverage and reduce policy lapses—a scaling challenge typical of carriers balancing growth with retention.
Notable leadership hires: Sales Director, Underwriting Director
Kemper is a publicly traded specialized insurer headquartered in Chicago with approximately $12 billion in assets. The company underwrites auto, commercial auto, home, life, accident and health, and personal catastrophe liability policies across two main brands (Kemper Auto and Kemper Life). The platform serves over 4.6 million policies distributed through approximately 24,200 agents and brokers. Core operational focus is on process automation within adaptive planning systems, enterprise data modernization, and managing agent recruiting and retention as the sales force expands.
Auto, commercial auto, home, life, accident and health, and personal catastrophe liability insurance across Kemper Auto and Kemper Life brands.
Guidewire Insurance Suite (BillingCenter), SQL, Java, Spring Boot, .NET, Python, React, AWS (RDS, Lambda, CodePipeline), and Informatica for data integration.
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