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Lead Software Engineer (Node.js)
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Location Krakow (City), Poland
- Category Technology
- Job ID R25_0000014089
- Date posted 04/25/2025
- Brand Genuine Parts Company
- Status Full time
- Job Type Hybrid
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 be a key position in supporting and expanding backend systems for our eCommerce solution. A strong understanding of backend systems that support distributed processing and application resiliency is very important to the success of this position as well.
Responsibilities
Lead, collaborate, and pair with other product team members (engineering and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, interrelationships, dependencies, and interactions among system components
Design, develop, and maintain highly reusable NodeJS/NestJS code.
Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate UI components with APIs and databases.
Keep up to date with the latest backend trends and technologies, integrating new ideas as needed to innovate and maintain product competitiveness.
Testing Automation: Implement and maintain automated testing procedures for the backend to catch regressions and issues early in the development process.
Guide and act as a resource to other engineers on the team
This job requires 80% coding or coding-related tasks every day
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience)
At least 5 years of experience in backend development (at least 3 in NodeJS)
MySQL/PostgreSQL
Experience with distributed systems
Very good knowledge of NodeJS/NestJS
Experience with public cloud computing (preferably Google Cloud Platform)
Very good knowledge of Agile methodologies
Excellent coding skills and passion for growing expertise
Experience in writing tests
Strong communication skills
Location
Krakow/Hybrid
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