Continuously enhance the Challenges product to drive usage and revenue growth
Lead conversations between product, design, and business partners to find novel yet technically feasible solutions to business problems
Plan and coordinate the delivery of complex projects from early ideation to launch
Provide technical and operational support to business partners as part of an on-call rotation
Help build a team culture of continuous iteration, experimentation, and incremental delivery
Mentor engineers across the organization, sharing technical knowledge along with the habits and decision-making that help engineers grow
YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL HERE BY
Showing Strong Ownership: You go beyond taking accountability for the reliability and correctness of the systems you build. You exercise good judgment on what is important for the team and proactively solve problems even if they sit outside your immediate domain.
Staying Flexible to Business Needs: Sometimes problems require scrappy solutions that can be done quickly and sometimes we need to design a long-term ideal that sits outside today’s constraints. You are comfortable with either.
Continuously Improving: You strive to make things a bit better every day for both yourself and your team. You excel at giving and receiving difficult feedback with good intent.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM
Experience building and operating complex, data-intensive backend systems in production at scale, with a track record of breaking large technical problems into well-scoped, executable work.
Experience working in an operations-heavy environment and instilling operational excellence best practices across a team.
Experience planning and coordinating large cross-functional projects while staying flexible through changing requirements.
Familiarity with agentic coding tools and how to best leverage them to produce high-quality work.
IT’S A BONUS IF
You’ve worked with React, Android, or iOS and are happy to jump across platforms when needed.
You’ve thrived in a startup-within-a-company setting, where small teams move fast and ship pragmatically.
You have built AI agents or skills to improve internal operations.
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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.
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