Server Engineer, Strava
Comms & Experimentation
$155-175k
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
$155-175k
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 1-3 years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems or services
- Strong fundamentals in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, Python, Go, or similar)
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or distributed data stores
- Are eager to learn, ask great questions, and aren't afraid to work on unfamiliar problems
- Work well with others, communicate clearly, and actively seek feedback
What the job involves
- Strava is hiring a Server Engineer to work on a new Comms and Experimentation Platform team within our Horizontal Engineering organization
- This is a ground-floor opportunity to help shape the platform that powers how Strava connects with athletes
- As a Server Engineer for the Comms and Experimentation Platform team, you will be a founding member of the team, working alongside senior engineers to build scalable platform capabilities for communications and experimentation
- Grow your expertise, working with experienced engineers on distributed systems, event streaming, and communications infrastructure at scale
- Drive measurable impact, building features that enable Marketing campaigns and product experiments that reach millions of athletes
- Own your work end-to-end, building capabilities from design to implementation to production deployment and monitoring
- Grow your platform engineering skills, building reusable capabilities rather than one-off solutions
- You Will Be Successful Here By:
- Taking ownership of well-defined projects with support from senior engineers
- Building strong working relationships with teammates and contributing to a positive team culture
- Producing clean, well-tested code that other engineers can understand and build upon
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 the company into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple. In 2025, the company secured new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital, growing its value to $2.2 billion.
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
- 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
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