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:
PDS is a core team from IT Web department that provides secure, reliable, and scalable data and API services that make it easy to retrieve, manage, and distribute product data, ensuring accurate and timely information for consumers. That makes us a key part of the product launches, product information distribution and media management. PDS owns the tool used by the Marketing team to manage product data, as well as the processes for distributing that information internally and externally across Garmin and to Garmin vendors.
Technology stack: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, 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)
- Good knowledge of relational databases.
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
- Experience in implementing web services (REST).
- Familiar with asynchronous communication in distributed systems.
- 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 knowledge or passion to learn about the monitoring tools used to ensure the stability of our systems: AppDynamics, Uptrends, ELK stack, Splunk.
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.
