Senior Engineer, Software – Inventory Planning & Replenishment

Company Background:

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. 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 60,000 teammates. 

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 a hands-on engineer of a seasoned agile team to build the next generation Inventory Planning & Replenishment systems 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 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.  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 And Key Accountabilities: 

• 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 Help 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.

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.
• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years’ (3+ preferred) 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.

• 2+ Experience in writing SQLs to get analytical data from Google Big Query
• Experience with database technologies and creating SQL queries.

• Experience in writing automated tests - Unit/Integration tests.
• Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Git/GitHub for source version control and relevant CI/CD process.
• Experience with A