Staff Server Engineer, User Lifecycle
StravaAbout This Role
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.
Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.
This role is on the User Lifecycle team. We are responsible for the user's lifecycle by guiding from their signup process, to their first upload and to a habit of continuous uploading on Strava.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office—roughly three days per week.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner with an Engineering Manager, and Product to define the technical vision for the future of User Lifecycle at Strava
- Work with a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build Strava’s onboarding, login, and communication platform.
- Deliver backend services in large, reliable, and scalable distributed systems.
- You love to mentor other people in their technical growth while learning simultaneously.
You Will Be Successful Here By:
- Mentoring other engineers and up-leveling the organization by writing blog posts and giving tech talks about your work.
- Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava
- Owning the team’s work and partnering with cross-functional peers to ensure services are adequately scoped and implemented.
- Contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture
- Be willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- Have built services in a production environment, using languages like (but not limited to) Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go, etc.
- Have experience with relational or NoSQL databases in production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra)
- Have experience with open-source distributed systems technologies (we use Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker)
- You have 7+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent wisdom.
- You have experience working scaling integrations and implementing defensive engineering techniques with third-party SaaS vendors
Why Join Us?
Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.
Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.
When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.
Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.
Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.