Staff Engineer, Strava

• Bring proficiency and hands-on experiences in iOS development using Swift, ObjC, SwiftUI / UIKit
• Have worked with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Core Data, and Core Animation in a production environment
• Have experience working with large, modularized applications that use dependency injection tools and connect to back-end services
• Have at least some experience in using GraphQL
• Stay up to date and experiment with the latest iOS technologies, breaking down their objective engineering value, to share and compare opinions with other engineers
• Have a product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to solve real business problems
• Enjoy working on mobile apps at all levels – from optimizing network requests to pixel perfect animations
• Have coordinated with fellow Android and Server engineers to maintain clean and considered common touch points and share best practices across the stack
• Have led technical initiatives and have supported other technical leads on their own initiatives
• Have experience building maintainable and testable code bases. With an appreciation for the challenges posed by each within a fast evolving codebase with many contributors
• Have enjoyed mentoring engineers within your team and beyond

• Our engineering organization is looking for a motivated and experienced iOS engineer at Staff level to join Strava’s mobile team in San Francisco. A Staff Engineer at Strava is an Individual Contributor in a technical leadership position.
• You will be reporting to a Director of Engineering, working across two teams: Achieve and Explore. Achieve’s charter is to help active people achieve their athletic goals.
• They own features like our Progress and Training experiences, the Activity Page and Athlete Intelligence. Explore’s charter is to help our athletes explore the world around them. They own features like Routes, Segments and how our users interact with Maps
• We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office—roughly three days per week
• Collaborate with all members of your product development team, product managers, engineers, designers and others to identify and execute on opportunities to further extend Strava’s best in class mobile offering
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to guarantee technical excellence within your own work and the work of the team
• Champion the evolution of Strava’s technological landscape, driving the adoption of advanced technologies and practices
• Be a part of Strava’s Staff group, coordinating iOS development across product teams
• Pro-actively mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership to the team. Support the consistent upleveling of our engineers and engineering team, yourself included
• Deliver your best ever feature work to directly impact tens of millions of engaged users
• Representing and leading strategic initiatives that shape the future of the team and department
• Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava
• Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences
• Using your in-depth knowledge of all things iOS to help drive technical conversations with peers from different backgrounds, across different teams
• Being willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone

• Competitive base salary & stock options
• 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
• Flexible paid time off
• $2,000 annual professional development stipend
• Paid time off for volunteering
• 401(k) plan - with company matching
• $1000 annual gear stipend
• $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
• On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
• Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
• Safe and secure bike storage on-site
• Weekly all hands meetings
• Employee resource groups
• Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
• Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
• Regular team happy hours
• Team offsites and company retreats
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
• Race entries to events we sponsor
• Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
• Strava gear

Total funding: $151.4m

Strava has created an online network where runners, swimmers and cyclists can record fitness activities, and compare and compete with their community. It offers both a free and premium subscription service with added features. The company also partners with local councils and urban planners who purchase valuable journey data from Strava which can be used to map out cities and develop safer cycle paths.