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 the Software Engineer of a newly formed team of Engineers to build Supply Chain’s future system integration framework at 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 system integration development and execution across GPCs Supply Chain 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. The ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

Responsibilites

• 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 adheres 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

• 2+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology

• Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, familiarity with microservices, cloud Technologies.

• In-depth knowledge of the C# programming language and the .NET framework, especially MVC, WEB API and EF

• Understanding of microservices principles and patterns, including autonomous services implementing a single business function

• Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end user-facing microservices

• Understanding of the core concepts of Kubernetes, including pods, deployments, services and ingress, as well as experience with orchestrating containers in a Kubernetes environment

• Experience with DevOps practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes to ensure fast and reliable software delivery

• Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (preferably Azure).

• Experience in designing and running A/B Tests and analyze the Key metrics

• Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.

• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.

Location: Krakow (2 days from Office)

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