5 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and build the roadmap for Strava’s social platform services.
- Act as tech lead for a small engineering pod and facilitate planning, sprint ceremonies, and cross-team coordination.
- Solve complex technical problems and lead teams in executing solutions across domains.
- Drive modernization and migration efforts for critical platform services.
- Partner with product teams to identify upcoming platform needs and provide capabilities at the right time.
- Own technical investment strategy across the social domain, including reliability, performance, and cost standards.
- Design, build, and review systems supporting Strava’s social features.
- Mentor engineers on the pod and across Strava’s technology organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience with a track record of setting technical direction.
- Experience leading technical projects involving multiple engineers, including scoping, decomposition, coordination, and delivery.
- Experience acting as a tech lead, facilitating team processes, and driving roadmaps.
- Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale and the ability to make and defend architecture decisions.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language used at Strava: Ruby, Scala, Go, or Java, with comfort learning others.
- 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 system migrations, or server-driven UI patterns.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model with more than half of the time on-site, three days per week, in the San Francisco or Denver office.
- Inclusive workplace with opportunities for employee growth and development.
- Reasonable accommodations are provided for applicants and employees with disabilities.
Tech Stack
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.