Lead Software Engineer (Java)

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 the Lead Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers 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 is an engineering hands-on role with responsibility for enabling system integration, development and execution across GPCs 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, demonstrate the 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. The ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

Responsibilities: 

• 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

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 at least 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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