Staff Engineer, Core Services Platform

🕒 April 25

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Strava

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201 - 500 employees

👥 B2C

⚽ Sports

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round - Strava on 2025-05

B2C • Sports • SaaS

Strava is a consumer-focused social fitness platform and mobile app that tracks and analyzes athletic activities (running, cycling, hiking and many other sports) using GPS and connected devices. It combines activity recording, detailed performance metrics, route planning, community features (clubs, challenges, feeds) and optional subscription services to help athletes train, connect and compete.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for Strava's social platform services • Act as tech lead for a small pod of engineers • Solve tough technical problems and lead small teams to execute solutions • Drive modernization and migration efforts for critical platform services • Partner with product teams to inform the roadmap • Own a strategy for technical investment across the social domain • Design, build, and review the systems that back Strava's most-used social features • Mentor engineers on the pod and across the Strava tech team

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience • Experience leading technical projects involving multiple engineers • Experience acting as a tech lead • Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale • Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Scala, Go, Java) • Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS) • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases in production (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Offers Equity • Flexible hybrid model • Remote work options