Software Developer

Job Description
About Advance Auto Parts
Founded in Roanoke, VA in 1932, Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive aftermarket retail parts provider that serves both professional installer and do-it-yourself Customers. As of July 13, 2019, Advance operated 4,912 stores and 150 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also serves 1,250 independently owned CARQUEST branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, the Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. The company has a workforce of over 70,000 knowledgeable and experienced Team Members who are proud to provide outstanding service to their Customers, Communities, and each other every day.

About Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC)
We are continually innovating and seeking to elevate the Customer experience at each of our stores. For an organization of our size and reach, today, it has become more critical than ever, to identify synergies and build shared capabilities. The Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC), located in Hyderabad, is a step in this strategic direction that enables us to access a larger talent pool, unlock operational efficiencies and increase levels of collaboration.

Mandatory Skills
Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Kafka, JPA/Hibernate, REST/SOAP, Database (Postgres/Oracle), PLSQL, JUnit, Swagger.

Preferred Skills
Ecommerce, Git, Azure, Openshift, Websphere or Weblogic or JBoss, Grafana

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.

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience/training
• 5-8 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 Boot, Spring Batch, REST,JSP, web services, Eclipse, Git, SQL, PL SQL.
• Experience defining tables and creating SQL queries using Postgres/Oracle (preferred) or another database platform.
• 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
• 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.
• Demonstrated knowledge in building, debugging and maintaining mission critical enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, QA engineers, and product managers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work both independently and with a dispersed team
• Demonstrated knowledge in Agile software development disciplines.

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