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

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 a hands-on engineer of a newly formed team to build the next generation commerce platforms for 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 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

• Collaborate with other team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

• Design and develop secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native microservices

• Participate in all phases of the integration development lifecycle, including unit testing and ongoing support

• Collaborate with the Lead and other Software Engineering resources in designing and implementing integrated, enterprise solutions

• Have a “test-first” attitude with a focus on automation

• Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering

• Experience with Java programming language, Typescript, and Javascript.

• Experience with front-end technologies like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Angular framework and Node.js

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

• Experience with cloud computing (Google Cloud Platform preferred)

• Knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and experience in coding SQL, knowledge of Google Big Query would be a plus

• Knowledge of data structures, object-oriented programming and functional programming

• Nice to have experience in search engines like Apache Solr or Elasticsearch or Vector Search.

• Experience in writing automated tests - unit/integration tests

Location

Krakow/Hybrid

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