Senior JavaScript Software Engineer - Garmin Connect Team

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.

As a Senior JavaScript Software Engineer working in our office in Cluj, you will join a team that works on Garmin Connect, the fitness and wellness application that millions of Garmin customers rely on.

Garmin Connect is our best known, Fitness and Outdoor power-house companion app catering to over 20 million active users and supporting an ever-growing number of compatible Garmin devices (around 150 at this point). The feature set is very rich and targets our complex user base with running, cycling, wellness, training, smartwatch, golfing, diving, and even pregnancy tracking feature.

• From a high level point of view, our team’s main responsibility is connect.garmin.com with all its encompassing features, with more and more being created from scratch or migrated from legacy technologies
• We’re organized in decoupled verticals each with engineers spread between Cluj and our US main office in Olathe, KS, allowing each vertical to work and deploy code independently
• Highly collaborative product development process, closely working with Product Owners, BAs and Project Engineers on compelling new features for our global users

Given our scale and our vision of being the global leader in every market we serve, we are always looking to find the best engineers to come and join us on our mission.

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.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript application development including asynchronous programming, Promises, ES6

• Proven experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React or similar

• Experience with responsive web design

• Familiarity with unit and automation testing concepts and technologies

• Experience with development processes including version control, automated testing, security, and performance considerations across modern browsers

Would be a plus:

• Experience with server-side programming using NodeJS, associated frameworks (Next.js or NestJS) and module bundlers like Webpack

• Cloudflare Workers

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.