Android Software Engineer | Garmin Connect Team

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 are looking forward to meeting passionate Android Software Engineers, ready to contribute with their expertise in an end to end product development environment. Garmin is a great place to work if you love developing products that make a difference and are passionate about technology.

Garmin Connect Mobile is our best known, Fitness and Outdoor power-house companion app catering tens of millions active users and supporting an ever-growing number of compatible Garmin devices. 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.

Responsibilities:

Create and execute designs for software components within a larger project. Mentor and provide guidance to less experienced Software Engineers. Collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions. Estimate level of effort, evaluate new options of similar technology, offer suggestions to improve processes. Perform technical root cause analysis and outline corrective action for given problems. Requirements

Strong knowledge of Android architecture components (ViewModel, StateFlow/LiveData, Room) and application architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture. Proficiency in Kotlin including coroutines, Flow, and idiomatic language features. Strong Jetpack Compose skills: state hoisting, side effects, theming, custom components, and View interop. Experience with dependency injection frameworks. Solid understanding of background processing (WorkManager, foreground services) and BT/BLE APIs. Familiarity with testing practices: unit tests (JUnit, MockK) and UI tests (Compose Testing / Espresso). Experience with Gradle/AGP build configuration and Android Studio tooling. Minimum 5 years of Android development experience. Benefits

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.