Android Software Engineer

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.