Company Background
Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees.
Position Purpose
Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer, Java & Google Cloud-Supply Chain is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Lead Software Engineers will aid in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring. Lead Engineers contribute to foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation. As Lead Software Engineer, you will be a core player on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior software engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5 years of relevant work experience
- Experience building applications on Google Cloud Platform
- Experience in Agile and Kanban environments
- Multiple years of experience collaborating with a distributed team environment
- Extensive experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java), Relational and NoSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns
- Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
- Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
- Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
- Experience with version control systems
- Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
- Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring, and modernizing legacy systems
Major Tasks, Responsibilities, & Key Accountabilities
- Delivery and Execution – Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc.) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
- Learns and Grows - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling unfamiliar problems.
- Plans and Aligns - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
- Supports and Enables - Fields questions from product and engineering teams; Helps grow junior engineers by supplying guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions; Notes gaps on the team and supplies suggestions for changes to make team more productive.
Standard Minimum Qualifications
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally allowed to work in the United States
Education Required
- Knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through completion of bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in field of study related to job
Physical Requirements
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.