Staff Software Engineer, Strava
Data Platform
$210-230k
3+ days a week in office
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
Open for applications
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$210-230k
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
- Have the ability to adapt and apply evolving data technologies to business needs
- Have a strong background in developing software using programming languages like Python, Scala, Java, Go, Ruby, etc
- Have sufficient familiarity to understand SQL queries in the context of data pipelines (i.e. dbt)
- Have experience with distributed data tools (i.e. Spark, Flink, Kafka) on large datasets
- Have worked with cloud-data warehouses (i.e. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or other warehousing solutions
- Have an understanding of underlying infrastructure needed to serve production services (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure)
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced staff software engineer to help grow and mature our data platform as Strava scales
- Data is a critical driver of decisions that benefit both our athletes and the business
- The Strava Data Platform serves as the foundation for this decision-making process, supporting every part of the company through infrastructure enabling rich data analysis
- We strive to build a platform that enables self-service for a variety of use cases while maintaining strong governance and reliability
- Be a technical leader of a diverse team of engineers to enable data insights at Strava
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams excited about solving data problems while maintaining accessibility, security, and governance
- Architect and optimize our existing data pipelines and infrastructure to improve performance and reliability
- Take part in helping shape the long term technical landscape of our data platform to support the global scale of Strava
- You will be successful here by:
- Mentoring other engineers and providing technical guidance across teams, taking part in an inclusive team culture
- Building scalable software solutions to existing data problems utilizing modern data technologies
- Writing high quality and reliable code that supports our end user experience
- Understanding that data security and privacy is of utmost importance
- Holding empathy for the users of our platform to truly understand the challenges we address for them
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 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.
The platform helps members discover and plan workouts, as well as offering a leaderboard which is updated using GPS as users compete for the top spot on particular fitness segments.
With over 125 million athletes and growing, Strava released several new product rollouts in 2024, including an AI-enabled leaderboard. A partnership with the wearable fitness tracker Oura will mean Strava software is available on wearables, taking Strava into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple.
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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
- 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
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Gainey
(Chairman)Having studied at Harvard, Mark started their career as a TA Associates Associate before co-founding Kana Communications and several Board Membership roles. They co-founded Strava in 2007, serving since as Chairman.
Michael Horvath
(CEO & Board Member)Michael co-founded Kana with Mark before working as an Economics Professor at Stanford and Dartmouth. They worked for 4 years as CFO of GlycoFi before co-founding Strava, serving initially as CEO and since 2017 as a Board Member.
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