Principal Engineer, Software – Search & Recommendations

Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “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. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and China.

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 Staff Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers to build the next generation commerce platforms 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 leadership role with responsibility for enabling cloud transformation and execution for GPC’s unified commerce 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. Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the vision and architecture roadmap for cart and checkout domain.
• Lead the development and build out of specific products within thecommerce platform
• Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Initiate both group and one-on-one meetings with senior management in order to gain a clear understanding of business drivers and functional requirements
• Lead design and architecture discussions for IT platforms engaging with other staff engineers, engineering teams across different business units to ensure secure and scalable solutions
• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures
• Lead architecture, design and code reviews with engineering teams
• Provides oversight on delivery to ensure industry best practices, standards, automation, quality, timeliness, operational readiness, continuous improvement and cost-effective solutions
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to lead engineers and the technical team within a domain

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.
• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work remotely

Desired Qualifications & Experiences: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field
• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology
• Proven technical leadership and skills in creating, leading and implementing eCommerce Search and Recommendations platform for large enterprise scale.
• Experience in defining strategy and success criteria to migrate high transactional cart and checkout applications from on-prem to cloud.
• Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end user-facing microservices
• Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, cloud Technologies.
• Experience with programming languages- Java, JEE, latest features leveraging functional programming.
• Experience in building cloud native microservices using Spring Boot or equivalent.
• Experience in BigData and NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, Big Table or equivalent.
• Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query or equivalent OLAP databases.  
• Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.
• Extensive knowledge around various data integration patterns against databases (inbound and outbound) to solve for real-time, and batch workloads
• Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure).
• Experience in performance engineering, destructive testing methodologies and tools.
• Excellent oral and written communication

• Must also have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field, including but not limited to 
• Experience in search engines like Apache Solr or Elastic Search or Vector Search. 
• Experience in Retail Knowledge Graph.
• Data engineering for large-scale machine learning on Cloud preferably google cloud- BigQuery, BigTable, GCS, Dataflow, Dataproc(Spark)
• Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyze the Key metrics
• Experience with programming languages- Java, JEE, Data structures.
• Modern System Architecture Patterns.
• Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.
• Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure).
• Experience working with modern SQL / noSQL Databases.

Not the right fit?  Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community on jobs.genpt.comor create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!

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.