Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack at Garmin’s U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.  In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and project planning for software development for products, applications, or systems new to Garmin as an individual contributor.

• Serves in a leadership capacity as an individual contributor for carrying out software development in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Vue or other selected languages for new products and/or applications
• Designs and develops web-enabled client-side and server-side applications as part of a structured Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
• Develops and consumes web services utilizing a services-oriented architecture
• May serve as a Lead Software Engineer for complex software development project designs and/or reviews architected modules and software systems supporting new technology or improving capability/performance of existing functionality
• Works directly with stakeholders to come up with functional requirements and decomposes functional requirements into well-defined tasks
• Researches fundamental problems and implements algorithm solutions that are appropriate
• Offers peer technical assessments in areas of expertise, new technologies and software designs
• Participates in project leadership and/or program planning including providing technical input to product development plans and concept documents
• Makes substantial contributions toward determination of project goal/objective feasibility and applies good judgment in setting schedules/risk taking
• Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced Software Engineers (1 & 2)
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies
• Offers process improvement suggestions and authors new procedures as appropriate
• Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques
• Supports working hours as part of a rotating schedule to provide on call support of Garmin’s 24/7 operations

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Math, Physics or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Must possess programming experience using Java (11, 17, 21+), dependency injection frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot), O/R mapping (Hibernate, OpenJPA), Vue
• Proficiency in frontend technologies such as JavaScript, Typescript, and frameworks like Vue, Express or React.
• Experience with relational and/or non-relational database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD
• Must demonstrate proficiency in the development of unit and integration tests
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion or GIT
• Demonstrated proficiency with designing well architected software systems and modules that support new technology or improve capability/performance of existing functionality
• Demonstrated competence with researching fundamental problems and implementing appropriate algorithmic solutions
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a lead software engineer for a complex software project
• Ability to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity, and complexity in work output
• Demonstrated capability to offer peer technical assessments in areas of expertise, new technologies and software designs
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Experience with messaging/event streaming systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Experience with cloud-based development using platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits