Engineering Manager, Strava
Subscriptions
$222-248k
+ equity
Strava, CA
3 days a week in office
Social network for tracking run & cycle routes
Be an early applicant
Social network for tracking run & cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$222-248k
+ equity
Strava, CA
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create the most committed, close, and engaged athlete community on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering
- 2+ years of engineering management experience, or demonstrated tech lead experience where you were already doing the job of coaching engineers, driving technical direction, and owning delivery for a team
- Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)
- Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)
- Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems
- A track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship
- We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them
What the job involves
- Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager on our Subscriptions team. This team owns Strava's payments and subscription platform, both the infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers
- We're looking for a technical manager who still writes code and wants to grow a small team of backend engineers while owning some of Strava's most critical systems
- Lead a team of server engineers building Strava's subscription and payments backend, systems that power how millions of athletes subscribe, pay, and manage their subscriptions
- Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure. You'll partner closely with product and engineering leadership on priorities, balancing platform investment, reliability, and delivery
- Drive both platform and product work. Your team owns our subscription infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers
- Stay hands-on in the codebase. You'll write code, own technical designs, and make architecture decisions alongside your team, not just review them
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers at multiple levels. Coach people through career growth, give direct feedback, and build a team that gets stronger over time
- Keep payment and subscription services reliable and healthy. You own on-call, incident response, and the operational bar for your team's systems
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, accounting, and marketing to identify the highest-leverage work and ship it
- Treat ownership seriously. Your team's systems handle payments, billing, and subscription state for millions of users. You take reliability, correctness, and incident response personally
- Grow your engineers. You'll manage people at different career stages and help each one develop, whether that's getting someone to senior or helping a more experienced engineer take on larger technical ownership
- Build for the long term. You make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping now and investing in the platform, and you can explain those tradeoffs clearly to partners
- Stay technical. You're not managing from a distance. You have informed opinions on system design and you can unblock engineers by jumping into the code
- Make the team better. You care about how the team works, not just what they ship. You'll fix what's slowing people down and build processes that stick
Our take
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, and also partners with local councils and urban planners who purchase its journey data to map out cities and develop safer cycle paths.
With over 125 million athletes and growing, Strava's popularity is clear. Over the years, it has released new features such as an AI-enabled leaderboard, as well as partnering with Oura to make its software available through Oura's wearables. It has also secured impressive funding and a valuation over $2 billion, and is now pursuing an IPO.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2020
$110m
SERIES F
Oct 2014
$18m
LATE VC
Total funding: $151.4m
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Martin
(CEO & Board Member)Previously GM/VP at YouTube, GM/VP (Greater China Marketplace) at Nike, SVP (Product & Engineering) at NBCUniversal Media and VP (Engineering) at Disney ABC Television Group.
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