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

This role will be a key position in supporting and expanding backend systems for our eCommerce solution. A strong understanding of backend systems that support distributed processing and application resiliency is very important to the success of this position as well.

Responsibilities

Lead, collaborate, and pair with other product team members (engineering and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, interrelationships, dependencies, and interactions among system components

Design, develop, and maintain highly reusable NodeJS/NestJS code.

Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate UI components with APIs and databases.

Keep up to date with the latest backend trends and technologies, integrating new ideas as needed to innovate and maintain product competitiveness.

Testing Automation: Implement and maintain automated testing procedures for the backend to catch regressions and issues early in the development process.

Guide and act as a resource to other engineers on the team

This job requires 80% coding or coding-related tasks every day

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience)

At least 5 years of experience in backend development (at least 3 in NodeJS)

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Experience with distributed systems

Very good knowledge of NodeJS/NestJS

Experience with public cloud computing (preferably Google Cloud Platform)

Very good knowledge of Agile methodologies

Excellent coding skills and passion for growing expertise

Experience in writing tests

Strong communication skills

Location

Krakow/Hybrid

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