Engineering Manager

About This Role

Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 120 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love, and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.

Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our Activities team. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the Strava experience: the activities and data they provide to our athletes. We’re looking for an engineering manager to join the team and be responsible for driving product strategy and supporting the career development of engineers on the team.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco or Denver office.

For more information on compensation and benefits, please click here.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Manage a team of mobile and server engineers building the services and features that enable athletes to put their active lives into focus and track their progress.
• Partner with product, design, and analytics to identify and deliver impactful product improvements that allow athletes to upload, visualize, and analyze their activities.
• Build an inclusive and impactful team culture within your team.
• Work closely with other engineering leaders on team-wide initiatives such as hiring, the intern program, and the technology vision.

You will be successful here by:

• Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava.
• Coaching the engineers on the team and supporting their career development at all different levels and career stages.
• Applying exceptional judgment to challenging situations.
• Embracing an inclusive, collaborative environment that elevates a diverse set of voices and experiences.

We’re excited about you because:

• You will manage a team of engineers and support their career development.
• You will deliver well-designed, high-quality products at scale.
• You will build distributed systems to deliver reliable, consistent, and fault-tolerant product experiences.
• You will hire amazing people to join our team.

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, 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, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

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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