At Garmin we create products that are designed indoors for outdoor activities. We do this to enable our customers to make the most of their time spent pursuing their passions.
We are a global company with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. In these centers, we carry out the various stages of product development, from initial concept to mass production of ready-to-sell units. We embrace a vertically integrated business model with strategic design, manufacturing, distribution, sales and support centers around the world to maximize our value to customers.
If you enjoy developing quality and innovative software solutions and want to be part of a team that contributes to a collaborative and professional end-to-end product development environment, then this is your opportunity to work alongside a passionate team of engineers.
We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to join one of our top contributor teams:
eCommerce: being a fundamental part of IT-Web Applications, our mission is to ensure customers can view and purchase our products through reliable and fast services across the globe. We own and maintain critical infrastructure for our eCommerce platform, as well as the customer facing apps.
Technology stack: Java, Spring Boot, Vue JS, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Valkey, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Cloudflare, Kibana, AppDynamics, Uptrends.
We believe that collaboration leads to the best ideas, and we rely heavily on team interaction. As a role based in Cluj-Napoca, this position will require 5 days in the office each week.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance software solutions for Garmin's server-side applications.
- Apply software engineering best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- Understand business needs and translate them to technical solutions.
- Add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions.
- Help ensure resiliency and high availability of the applications owned by your team.
- Help set up monitoring for the new features being developed.
- Troubleshoot software issues.
- Write and maintain technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field.
- Strong knowledge of Java and OOP principles.
- Solid knowledge of unit testing (Junit, Mockito) and integration testing (RestAssured, Cucumber).
- Good knowledge of relational databases.
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
- Experience in implementing web services (REST).
- Familiar with asynchronous communication in distributed systems.
- Knowledge or passion to learn about the monitoring tools used to ensure the stability of our systems: AppDynamics, Uptrends, ELK stack, Splunk.
- Familiar with building tools and continuous delivery.
- Familiar with the Agile methodology.
- Demonstrate strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Good English skills, verbal and written.
- 3+ years of relevant work experience.
Would be a great plus if you:
- Have frontend experience.
Benefits
Benefits to enhance your experience:
- 24 days off each year plus extra vacation days based on years at Garmin and compensation for legal holidays.
- Health package subscription and yearly budget for glasses.
- Monthly budget for sports and wellbeing activities.
- Local and global career development programs (training, mentorship, technical and leadership development, and more).
- Access to e-learning platforms and support for technical conferences attendance.
- Loyalty bonus within the company, plus other special bonuses (for holidays and personal life events).
- Meal tickets.
Yours exclusively when part of our team:
- Significant discount for Garmin products.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Contribution to the retirement plan (Pillar 3).
- Garmin products available for testing and borrowing.
- A comprehensive event series championing wellbeing, sports, and community tailored to foster holistic health (featuring sports events, classes, hackathons, parties, and more).
- Other benefits which we invite you to discover along the recruitment process.
Garmin Cluj is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, age or disability.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field
- Strong knowledge of Java and OOP principles
- Solid knowledge of unit and integration testing
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot
- Familiar with Agile methodology
- 3+ years of relevant work experience
What We Do
Garmin has been developing innovative products for pilots, sailors, drivers, golfers, runners, cyclists, mountaineers, swimmers, and many active people for over 30 years. The company, founded in 1989 by friends and aeronautical engineers Gary Burrel and Min Kao, has sold over 200 million products to date, making it the global market leader in the automotive, fitness, outdoor, marine, and aviation sectors. In keeping with the company's motto #BeatYesterday, 21,000 employees work in 87 offices around the world to help their customers live healthier, move more, feel better, or discover new things. This motivates and inspires over 35 million Garmin Connect users every day. Garmin is recognized by its constant diversification, which has resulted in the successful establishment of fitness and health trackers, smartwatches, golf and running watches. Garmin Cluj is a development location within the group, with over 500 colleagues working enthusiastically on the development of future products in the aviation, automotive, fitness, outdoor, and marine sectors. We create products that are engineered on the inside for life on the outside. We do this so that our customers can make the most of the time they spend pursuing their passions. We like to encourage dreamers. But, at some point, it's nice to wake up and live a fully conscious life. So we make it super simple to touch a good balance between working, dreaming, and enjoying life.







