.NET Software Engineer | Backend focus | inReach

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.

If you want to contribute to saving people's lives every day, you're invited to join our Outdoor segment. Our teams are involved in scaling up the existing projects or building new features from scratch. We are seeking out a talented software engineer to work on the inReach messaging platform.

With the inReach device, the central piece of our Outdoor department, which connects to the Iridium satellite network, our customers can stay connected regardless of being in the middle of the ocean or over 5.000 meters climbing the Himalayas. The inReach SOS button saves 7 people each single day.

Being part of our squad, you will:

• Design, enhance, and build software solutions for web applications and services that are key components of Garmin's inReach ecosystem.
• Contribute, as a back-end developer, to all aspects of the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, estimations, documentation, testing, deployment and support.
• Collaborate with teams across all Garmin segments to gather and define requirements for new features and enhancements or to design and build technical solutions.
• Work with a diverse tech stack: .NET, .NET Core, SQL databases, event streaming (Azure event hubs/Kafka), queuing (Azure Service Bus, Amazon SQS), Web APIs, OAuth and with a variety of Azure/AWS services.
• Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment using Team City and Octopus for CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure that the services and systems built are performant, secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve skills and enhance development practices.
• Join a team of passionate and committed developers, focused on delivering the best solution and experience for our customers.

Requirements:
• Good knowledge of a wide range of technologies including but not limited to C#, .NET & .NET Core, Web API, Azure services, micro-services/distributed systems, MSSQL, Entity Framework/Core, Asynchronous programming, Design Patterns.
• Practical experience with micro-services, and implementing system wide health monitoring.
• Practical experience in increasing systems throughput by scaling or alternative methods for increasing efficiency.
• Knowledge, education, experience and/or training in object oriented development and a familiarity with databases and source code control.
• A bachelor of science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a technical field relevant to the essential functions of this job description and minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
• English proficiency.

Would be a great plus if you have:

• Practical experience in creating reliable systems by leveraging best practices, including cross cloud disaster recovery capabilities.

• Experience with working as part of an Agile (especially Scrum) team.
• Knowledge and experience with IaC tools, like Terraform.
• Experience with configuration and maintenance of/for CI/CD pipelines.

We work in a highly collaborative environment and expect everyone to participate. That doesn’t mean you need tons of experience (we’ll certainly take it though!) but a desire to contribute.

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.