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 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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