Description :

Who We Are :

Come join our Technology Team and start reimagining the future of the automotive aftermarket. We are a highly motivated tech-focused organization, excited to be in the midst of dynamic innovation and transformational change. Driven by Advances top-down commitment to empowering our team members, we are focused on delighting our Customers with Care and Speed, through delivery of world class technology solutions and products.

We value and cultivate our culture by seeking to always be collaborative, intellectually curious, fun, open, and diverse. You will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise capabilities across Advance Auto Parts.

Mandatory Skills :

- Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, REST, Relational Database (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL Database(any), APIs, Azure or Any Cloud Experience, Kafka

Preferred Skills :

- Ecommerce, Git, OpenAPI, Observability and Monitoring platform experience (like Grafana/Dyanatrace/Newrelic etc), Design Patterns and Microservice Patterns.

Communication Skills :

- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, work with architects to come to an agreed technical approach, and lead development efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.

- Ability to work collaboratively with or lead cross-functional teams with minimal supervision.

- Ability to drive consensus within a team and influence outcomes in significant technical decision-making.

- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to work with different business groups as well as IT partners (enterprise architects, vendors, etc.)

Problem Solving :

- Attention to detail and organization in all aspects of the system development along with a solid understanding of the customer need.

- Ability to understand, master, and be able to prototype with existing and new technologies quickly.

Time Management :

- Ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritize multiple streams of activity. Adapt well to changes.

- Demonstrated ability to meet commitments and multi-task in a fast-paced work environment with a high-level of accuracy and efficiency.

Analytic Skills :

- Demonstrated critical thinking skills.

- Open-minded, willing to consider multiple options, sources, perspectives, and possible solutions. Careful assessment of the importance, relevance, and validity of all options.

- Inquisitive. Ask probing questions and research as a basis for making design decisions and judging quality; understand the true reason behind the request rather than just accepting an initial thought or proposed solution.

- Proactive and willing to contribute ideas. Not afraid to ask questions.

Experience :

- Bachelors degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience/training

- 8 to 12 years of experience in Java building web applications in a J2EE Environment

- Experience in application development, testing, implementation and documentation of web based applications using Java

- Experience in J2EE development including Spring, REST, Eclipse, Git, SQL, Kafka.

- Experience with NoSQL Databases, PostgresSQL (Mandatory)

- Implement backend APIs using RESTful principles and Java frameworks such as Spring Boot / Webspere.

- Ensure seamless integration with frontend systems, databases, and third-party services.

- Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues.

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the backend codebase.

- Experience creating and configuring deployments in Jenkins

- Experience with Cloud, OpenShift is preferred

- Experience in inventory domain preferred

- Demonstrated ability to meet commitments and multi-task in a fast-paced work environment with a high-level of accuracy and efficiency.

- Demonstrated knowledge in building, debugging and maintaining mission critical enterprise applications.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, QA engineers, and product managers and lead the development efforts

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work both independently and with a dispersed team