Software Engineer (Java)

Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world, employing 60,000 people.

The GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow, established in 2022 by Genuine Parts Company is an innovative research and development facility supporting GPC’s digital transformation efforts.

The hub is focused on the development of advanced technologies and solutions that support GPC's operations and growth.

The GPC Global Technology Center team works on a wide range of projects assisting in areas such as e-commerce and data platforms, supply chain solutions, selling systems, and cyber security. This is home to a team of highly skilled IT engineers who are dedicated to driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions for GPC.

Position Purpose:

This role will function as a hands-on engineer of a newly formed team to build the next-generation shop management platform for GPC. Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key role in building and running one of the world’s largest automotive and industrial replacement parts operations.

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 good 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.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Develop secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native microservices. Helps define and adhere to team working agreements
• Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the Lead 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
• Have a “test-first” attitude with a focus on automation
• Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology
• Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, and familiarity with microservices, and cloud Technologies.
• Experience with programming languages- Java, latest features leveraging functional programming.
• 1+ years experience in building cloud-native microservices using Spring Boot.
• Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• This is an engineering position, and in our team, we believe in “always production-ready” code.
• This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day.
• Experience with cloud computing on at least one of the major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure)

Nice to have:

• Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query or equivalent OLAP databases.
• Experience in BigData and NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, Big Table, or equivalent.
• Experience in search engines like Apache Solr Elastic Search or Vector Search.
• Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyzing the Key metrics
• Experience in designing event-driven mechanisms and publish/subscribe models.
• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.

Location:

Krakow/Hybrid

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