Senior Staff Software Engineer, Strava
Android
$241-280k
2-3 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
$241-280k
2-3 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
- Brought proficiency and hands-on experiences in Android development using: Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose
- Worked with Android concepts such as ViewModel, Room, and LiveData in a production environment
- Experience working with large, modularized applications that use dependency injection tools and connect to back-end services
- Experience using GraphQL
- Stayed up to date and experiment with the latest Android technologies, breaking down their objective engineering value, to share and compare opinions with other engineers
- A product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to solve real business problems
- Enjoyed working on mobile apps at all levels – from optimizing network requests to pixel-perfect animations
- Coordinated with fellow Android and Server engineers to maintain clean code and considered common touchpoints and share best practices across the stack
- Led technical initiatives and supported other technical leads on their own initiatives
- Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, with an appreciation for the challenges posed by each within a fast evolving codebase with many contributors
- Enjoyed mentoring engineers within your team and beyond
What the job involves
- Our engineering organization is looking for a motivated and experienced Android engineer at the Senior Staff level to join Strava’s mobile team in San Francisco
- A Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Strava is an individual contributor in a technical leadership position
- You will be reporting to our Principal Engineer, working across our Product and Mobile foundation teams
- Bring meaningful perspectives from across the industry to Strava
- Help define our mobile architecture through vision and execution
- 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 Android development across product teams
- Pro-actively mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership to the team. Support the consistent up-leveling of our engineers and engineering team, yourself included
- Deliver your "best ever" feature work to directly impact tens of millions of engaged users
- Providing Android technical leadership role across multiple teams with responsibility for aligning technical plans
- Working with our other Sr. Staff Engineers to build a technical roadmap that drives substantial business value
- Establishing strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders across the organization
- Having a comprehensive view of the challenges within the engineering organization and using your experience and judgment to make decisions optimized for the wider organization
- Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava
- Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences
- Being 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.
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
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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