Team Leader Software Engineering

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.

Our team develops software solutions for Garmin Connect, which 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.

As a Team Leader, you will be directing and coordinating software development activities within Garmin Connect teams. You will directly supervise Java software backend engineers, oversee training and career development for all your team members and address team problems. You will help design, implement and develop various sets of APIs that support multiple business segments in accordance with Garmin's software development methodology.

 Essential job functions:

• Responsible for driving, coordinating, supervising and facilitating the work processes of Java/backend engineering teams.
• Active leading or delegation the solution creation, effort estimation, development, and project implementation.
• Create, maintain, improve and provide needed resources to enable team members to do their work.
• Ensure efficient inter-team communication and disseminate information coming from outside the group.

Requirements

Technical:

• Strong knowledge of Java and OOP principles.
• Proficiency experience in designing, enhancing and developing complex Java microservices (Spring Boot) or cloud-native applications.
• Good knowledge of Spring Framework.
• Good knowledge of web services (REST).
• Good knowledge of relational or non-relational databases.
• Skilled in unit testing.
• Good understanding of design patterns.
• Experienced in development tools (source control, development environment, issue tracking).
• Familiar with building tools and continuous delivery.