Senior Software Engineer, Server (Multimedia)

About This Role

Strava is the leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world, with over 85 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:

• Bring new and significant key features and capabilities to market for the entire Strava community.

• 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:

• Designing and implementing systems to support rich multimedia content.

• Building services in a production environment (using languages like, but not limited to Ruby, Java, Scala, Go, Python etc).

• Integrating with third-party APIs and SDKs

• 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.

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. And with billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and audacious 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. And 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.

In light of the global pandemic, Strava is currently working in a fully remote capacity. As always, we remain committed to fully supporting our employees, especially their mental health and wellbeing, through these challenging times. 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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