Staff Server Engineer, User Lifecycle

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 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.

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.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• 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.

We’re excited about you because:

• 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.

Compensation Overview

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: $210,000 - $230,000 The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include equity, or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

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About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leade