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Base Salary
$225k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for Strava’s social platform services.
- Act as technical lead for a small pod of engineers and facilitate planning, sprint ceremonies, and cross-team coordination.
- Lead complex technical solutions, modernization efforts, and migrations for critical platform services.
- Partner with product teams to anticipate platform needs and inform the roadmap.
- Own technical investment strategy across the social domain, including reliability, performance, and cost standards.
- Design, build, and review systems supporting Strava’s feed, photo/video sharing, experimentation, notifications, and other social features.
- Mentor engineers on the pod and across Strava’s technology organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional backend or server engineering experience with a track record of setting technical direction.
- Experience leading technical projects involving multiple engineers, including scoping, decomposition, and delivery coordination.
- Experience serving as a tech lead, facilitating team processes, and driving roadmaps.
- Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale and long-term architectural decision-making.
- Proficiency in at least one of Ruby, Scala, Go, or Java, with willingness to learn additional languages.
- Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
- Production experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra.
- Preferred experience with feed systems, social graphs, recommendation or ranking systems, large-scale migrations, or server-driven UI patterns.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model requiring more than half of the time onsite, with three days per week in Strava’s San Francisco or Denver office.
- Benefits information is provided through a linked Strava benefits document.
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About Strava
Strava builds a fitness-tracking and social platform for runners, cyclists, and other athletes on iOS, Android, and the web. The company operates a freemium subscription business with paid training, routing, and safety features, plus APIs and Strava for Business partnerships. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by over 200 million athletes across more than 185 countries.