Software Engineer (Java)

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 be 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 in building and running 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 good 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Develops secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native microservices.
• Helps define and adhere to team working agreements.
• Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle.
• Collaborates with the Lead 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.
• Have a “test-first” attitude with a focus on automation.
• Employs best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience.
• This is an engineering position, and in our team, we believe in “always production-ready” code.
• This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day.
  
  

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology.
• Experience with Java programming language, latest features leveraging functional programming.
• Expertise in data structures, object-oriented programming, functional programming, and familiarity with microservices, and cloud technologies.
• 1+ years experience in building cloud-native microservices using Spring Boot.
• Experience with various testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
• Experience with cloud computing on at least one of the major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure)
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyzing the Key metrics
• Experience in designing event-driven mechanisms, and publish/subscribe models.
• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.
• Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query or equivalent OLAP databases..
  
  

Location

Krakow/Hybrid