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Lead Software Engineer (Java)

  • Location Krakow, Poland

  • Category Technology
  • Job ID R25_0000026919
  • Date posted 07/22/2025
  • Brand Genuine Parts Company
  • Status Full time
  • Job Type Hybrid
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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 is a Lead Engineering role with responsibility for enabling development and execution in one of our main projects such as Supply Chain Integrations, Commerce Platform, Pricing and Customer Domain, etc.


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 a focus on customer experience, and have a proven track record of modernizing technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Leads, 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 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

  • 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

  • This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology

  • Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, and familiarity with microservices, and cloud Technologies.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Experience with cloud computing on atleast one of the major 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

Location

Krakow/Hybrid

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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.

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