The ad says“Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)”
The ad says“Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“A track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)”
The ad says“Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)”
The ad says“Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)”
The ad says“Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)”
The ad says“Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems”
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
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
Stock options
Preferred experience
A track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship
Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)
Proficiency in at least one of Strava’s backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go)
We’d love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them
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
Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems
5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering
