Senior Software Engineer - Java

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

• 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

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

Krakow/Hybrid