About the position
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 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 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 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. The candidate 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. Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.
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
- 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, inter relationship/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
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology
- Expertise in Data structures, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, familiarity with microservices, cloud Technologies
- Experience with programming languages- Java, JEE, latest features leveraging functional programming
- Experience in building cloud native microservices using Spring Boot or equivalent
- Experience in BigData and NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, Big Table or equivalent
- Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query or equivalent OLAP databases
- Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models
- Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests
- Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure)
- Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools
- Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
Benefits
- Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule
