Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

• 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

asic Qualifications

• 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