Java Developer

About GPC Global Technology Center

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. GPC's commitment to innovation and technology is evident in the GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow, established in 2022. This center serves as a hub for research and development, supporting GPC's digital transformation efforts. The center's team of highly skilled IT engineers focuses on developing advanced technologies and solutions that enhance GPC's operations and growth. Their work spans across various areas, including e-commerce and data platforms, supply chain solutions, selling systems, and cyber security. Learn more at genpt.com.

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:

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering & technology including Java programming
• 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