Senior Software Engineer, Server

Strava is the leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world, with US offices located in San Francisco and Denver and over 100 million athletes in 195 countries. If you sweat you’re an athlete, and Strava’s mobile apps and website connect millions of active people every day.

Strava is looking for people to build the systems and services that support Strava’s web and mobile applications. As a Senior Server Engineer at Strava, you’ll be responsible for making decisions which enable our product to scale to millions of athletes. Server engineers work on product teams, so you’ll be collaborating daily with our partners in product and design. Your projects will be a healthy mix of upgrading existing systems and developing new functionality. Our backend stack is written in Ruby and Scala, but you don’t need experience with those languages to be successful at Strava. Strava product engineers work on a healthy mix of new features as well as improving existing features and technologies to scale with our ever-growing athlete base. Our engineers collaborate within cross-functional and cross-platform teams that include frontend (mobile and web) engineers, server engineers, product design, product management, user research, data analytics, and marketing.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Write high-quality production code that enables millions of athletes to have an awesome experience on Strava.
• Provide technical leadership on the team.
• Have an opportunity to see the direct, business impact of your work on the growth of Strava
• Collaborate daily with partners in product and design to implement the team roadmap.
• Foster an engineering culture which makes your peers feel understood and included.

You will be successful here by:

• Partnering with cross-functional members of your team to deliver production-ready capabilities on a consistent cadence.
• Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava.
• Mentoring other engineers and up-leveling the organization by writing blog posts and giving tech talks about your work.

We’re excited about you because you have experience with:

• Building services in a production environment (using languages like, but not limited to Ruby, Java, Scala, Go, Python etc).
• Using AWS (or alternative) to manage cloud based infrastructure.
• Working with relational or NoSQL databases in Production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra).
• Open source distributed systems technologies. We use Kafka, ZooKeeper, Finagle, Storm, Spark, Elasticsearch, Mesos, and Docker.

We’d love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them. For more on Strava’s engineering team check out the Engineering Blog. It covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to personal perspectives on what it’s like to be an engineer at Strava.

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