Company Background
Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service provider of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added solutions. Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia. We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 63,000 teammates. Learn more at genpt.com
Position Purpose
Seeking world-class talent to join the world’s leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services operating 5,500+ locations and servicing more than 20,000 locations in the U.S and Canada. Specifically, this role will function as the Software Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers to build Supply Chain’s future system integration framework at GPC. Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key role to build and run one of the world’s largest automotive and industrial replacement parts operations.
This is an Engineering role with responsibility for enabling system integration development and execution across GPCs Supply Chain platforms.
This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be comfortable in enabling new technology and being hands-on with the execution of the strategy. She/he must exhibit a deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models, demonstrated focus on customer experience, and must have a proven track record of modernizing technologies.
Close collaboration and alignment with business teams, application development teams and security will be required. As such, exceptional abilities in building and maintaining strong working relationships and organizational savvy will be required. High-level communication and presentation skills are required. The ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.
Responsibilites
Lead, Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Design and develop secure, scalable, resilient cloud native microservices helps define and adheres to team working agreements
Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle, including unit testing and ongoing support
Collaborate with Architects and other Software Engineering resources in designing and implementing integrated, enterprise solutions.
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, interrelationships/dependencies/interactions among system components and how things work end to end. Act as the “go-to” person on integration-related questions
Have a “test-first” attitude with a focus on automation
Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience
Guide and act as a resource to other engineers on the team
Requirements
2+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology
Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, familiarity with microservices, cloud Technologies.
In-depth knowledge of the C# programming language and the .NET framework, especially MVC, WEB API and EF
Understanding of microservices principles and patterns, including autonomous services implementing a single business function
Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end user-facing microservices
Understanding of the core concepts of Kubernetes, including pods, deployments, services and ingress, as well as experience with orchestrating containers in a Kubernetes environment
Experience with DevOps practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes to ensure fast and reliable software delivery
Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (preferably Azure).
Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyze the Key metrics
Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.
Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.
Location: Krakow (2 days from Office)
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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
Skills Required
- 3+ years experience in software engineering
- Expertise in data structures
- Object-oriented programming
- Functional programming
- Familiarity with microservices
- Familiarity with cloud technologies
- In-depth knowledge of C# and the .NET framework (MVC, Web API, EF)
- Experience running high-throughput, low-latency end user-facing microservices
- Understanding of Kubernetes (pods, deployments, services, ingress) and container orchestration
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD
- Experience with cloud computing on at least one major provider
- Experience with Azure
- Experience designing and running A/B tests and analyzing key metrics
- Experience designing event-driven mechanisms and publish/subscribe models
- Experience writing automated unit and integration tests
- Strong communication, presentation, and collaboration skills
- Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent
Genuine Parts Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Genuine Parts Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Genuine Parts Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, with profit sharing and pension plans also mentioned. These elements indicate strong long-term financial support alongside ownership opportunities.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits encompass medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA and FSA options plus income-protection coverages like life, AD&D, and disability. This breadth suggests a robust core health and protection offering.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave are provided in addition to short‑term disability, and an Employee Assistance Program supports families with counseling and life tools. These programs reinforce family support alongside standard PTO.
Genuine Parts Company Insights
What We Do
Genuine Parts Company (GPC), founded in 1928, is a global service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. We serve hundreds of thousands of customers from a network of more than 10,000 locations in 14 countries and have approximately 50,000 employees.







