C++ Engineer, Strava
Map Rendering Engine, Android/iOS
€90-120k
3-5 days a week in office
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
Posted today
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Posted today
€90-120k
3-5 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
- Bring 4 years of professional experience with you
- Have experience in building out APIs and platform-specific bindings
- You bring subject matter expertise on one or more mobile platforms
- Have a product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to tackle real business problems
- Have experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
- Have proven, language-agnostic engineering skills
Desirable
- Experience writing memory and performance-optimized code, f. e. writing game engines or implementing complex algorithms
- Pooling
- Strong attention to detail & Task scheduling
- Multithreading (performant file reading)
- Client networking (HTTP)
- Understanding of spatial and graphics algorithms and software design patterns
- Cross platform projects (CMake)
- Well-informed opinions and practice regarding code quality, testing, pair-programming, linting, type safety and code review
- Expertise in crafting and documenting great APIs and System design
- Other languages in particular due to the focus on Mobile Kotlin and Java on Android, Objective-C and Swift on iOS
- CI, testing, automation - all part of our day-to-day job
- Interest in being active, in the outdoors or a love for mapping. People at Strava often share a passion for one or all of these things
What the job involves
- The team is developing a specialized and highly optimized mapping and terrain rendering engine that has to download and display data globally
- We use C++ for the engine to achieve the necessary performance and resource management level when integrated into our product
- The engine empowers our mobile applications to show global data, seamlessly display custom content, and manipulate the map
- There will always be challenges when displaying an immersive and responsive 3D experience under mobile hardware and energy constraints
- Involved in the full development cycle of the Map Rendering Engine, focusing on compatibility with either the Android or iOS platform
- Be responsible for a great developer experience for Strava’s Android/iOS Engineers integrating the Map Rendering Engine on their platform
- Support a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build out Strava’s client experience
- Contribute to the evolution of Strava’s technology landscape in map rendering, contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies and practices
- Effectively communicate with other teams about cross-stack requirements on APIs, Services integration, data exchange formats, and more
- Take personal responsibility for functional and non-functional quality aspects of the code
- Debug and resolve errors and respond swiftly to user feedback and engineering metrics
- Writing and documenting library/framework/engine APIs running on multiple platforms, focused on Android
- Designing, developing, releasing, and maintaining the Map Rendering Engine
- Working closely with teams consuming the MRE functionality in Strava clients
- Champion technical excellence within your work and the work of the team
- Be willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Antiracism
- Authenticity
- Balance
- Craftsmanship
- Camaraderie
- Commitment
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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