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 recognize the value of flexibility in supporting employee well-being, work-life balance, and effective collaboration. Associates may work from home up to four days per month, or one day per week, while remaining connected to the teams and culture that help us do our best work.
Our roles are primarily office-based because we believe the best ideas, innovation, and strongest professional relationships are built through in-person collaboration, making regular team interaction an important part of our culture and future success.
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.
We’re looking for a passionate Java engineer eager to bring expertise in an end-to-end product development environment across a range of impactful projects.
The Garmin Dive app is essentially the ultimate diving companion application featuring a digital logbook and community platform designed for scuba divers and free divers and it’s built to pair seamlessly with Garmin’s Descent series and other compatible watches.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance software solutions for Garmin 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
- Strong knowledge of Java and OOP principles.
- Proven experience in designing, enhancing and developing complex Java microservices using Spring Boot (experience in cloud-native application development is a plus).
- Strong understanding of Spring Framework.
- Good knowledge of web services (REST).
- Knowledgeable about relational or non-relational databases.
- Good knowledge of unit testing.
- Good understanding of design patterns.
- Good usage skills of development tools (source control, development environment, issue tracking).
- Good knowledge of building tools and continuous delivery.
- 4+ years of relevant work experience.
- Excellent English speaking and writing skills.
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
- Strong knowledge of Java and OOP principles
- Experience in designing and developing complex Java microservices using Spring Boot
- Understanding of Spring Framework
- Knowledge of web services (REST)
- Knowledge of relational or non-relational databases
- Knowledge of unit testing
- Understanding of design patterns
- Usage skills of development tools
- Knowledge of building tools and continuous delivery
- 6+ years of relevant work experience
- Excellent English speaking and writing skills
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.
