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
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 deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models, demonstrate focus on customer experience, and must have a proven track record of modernizing technologies.
Responsibilities:
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
Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle, including unit testing and ongoing support
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Act as a specialist in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, interrelationships, dependencies, and interactions among system components
Have a “test-first” attitude with a focus on automation
Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience
This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day
Requirements:
Essential Qualifications & Experiences:
4+ years of experience in software engineering & technology
Expert knowledge of Java
Experience in building cloud-native microservices using Spring Boot or equivalent
Experience with public cloud computing (preferably Google Cloud Platform)
Expertise in data structures, object-oriented programming, and functional programming
Good knowledge of Agile methodologies
“Nice to have” Qualifications:
Experience in search engines like Apache Solr or Elastic Search or Vector Search
Experience in BigData and NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, Big Table, or equivalent
Experience in Groovy scripting language
Experience with a query language GraphQL
Pricing/e-commerce/supply chain solutions experience would be a plus
Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query or equivalent OLAP databases
Designing publish/subscribe asynchronous communication
Designing and running A/B Tests and analyzing the key metrics
Writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests
Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools
Location:
Krakow/Hybrid
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