Position Purpose

Thisrole will function as the Lead Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers tobuild the next-generationshop managementplatform for GPC.  Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key rolein buildingand runningone of the world’s largest automotive and industrial replacement parts operations.  

This is an engineeringhands-onrole with responsibility for enabling system integration, development and execution acrossGPCs 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, demonstratethefocus 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.

• 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 adhere 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
  

• 5+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology

• Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming,andfamiliarity with microservices,andcloud Technologies.

• Experience with programming languages- Java, JEE, latest features leveraging functional programming.

• Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyzingthe Key metrics

• Experience in building cloud-native microservices using Spring Boot or equivalent.

• Experience in designing event-driven mechanisms,andpublish/subscribe models.

• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.

• Experience with cloud computing on atleast one ofthemajor providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS,or Azure).

• Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools.

• Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end user-facing microservices

Krakow/Hybrid