Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, or demonstrated tech lead experience where you were already doing the job of coaching engineers, driving technical direction, and owning delivery for a team
• Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)
• Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)
• Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems
• A track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship
• We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them What the job involves
• Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager on our Subscriptions team. This team owns Strava's payments and subscription platform, both the infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers
• We're looking for a technical manager who still writes code and wants to grow a small team of backend engineers while owning some of Strava's most critical systems
• Lead a team of server engineers building Strava's subscription and payments backend, systems that power how millions of athletes subscribe, pay, and manage their subscriptions
• Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure. You'll partner closely with product and engineering leadership on priorities, balancing platform investment, reliability, and delivery
• Drive both platform and product work. Your team owns our subscription infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers
• Stay hands-on in the codebase. You'll write code, own technical designs, and make architecture decisions alongside your team, not just review them
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers at multiple levels. Coach people through career growth, give direct feedback, and build a team that gets stronger over time
• Keep payment and subscription services reliable and healthy. You own on-call, incident response, and the operational bar for your team's systems
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, accounting, and marketing to identify the highest-leverage work and ship it
• Treat ownership seriously. Your team's systems handle payments, billing, and subscription state for millions of users. You take reliability, correctness, and incident response personally
• Grow your engineers. You'll manage people at different career stages and help each one develop, whether that's getting someone to senior or helping a more experienced engineer take on larger technical ownership
• Build for the long term. You make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping now and investing in the platform, and you can explain those tradeoffs clearly to partners
• Stay technical. You're not managing from a distance. You have informed opinions on system design and you can unblock engineers by jumping into the code
• Make the team better. You care about how the team works, not just what they ship. You'll fix what's slowing people down and build processes that stick Benefits
• Stock options
• 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
• Flexible paid time off
• $2,000 annual professional development stipend
• Paid time off for volunteering
• 401(k) plan
• with company matching
• $1000 annual gear stipend
• $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
• On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
• Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
• Safe and secure bike storage on-site
• Weekly all hands meetings
• Employee resource groups
• Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
• Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
• Regular team happy hours
• Team offsites and company retreats
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
• Race entries to events we sponsor
• Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
• Strava gear