Strava is the app for active people, with a mission to motivate individuals to live their best active lives. They are hiring a Server Engineer to join the Comms and Experimentation Platform team, where the engineer will work on building scalable platform capabilities for communications and experimentation that impact millions of athletes.
Responsibilities
- Grow your expertise, working with experienced engineers on distributed systems, event streaming, and communications infrastructure at scale
- Drive measurable impact, building features that enable Marketing campaigns and product experiments that reach millions of athletes
- Own your work end-to-end, building capabilities from design to implementation to production deployment and monitoring
- Grow your platform engineering skills, building reusable capabilities rather than one-off solutions
- Taking ownership of well-defined projects with support from senior engineers
- Building strong working relationships with teammates and contributing to a positive team culture
- Producing clean, well-tested code that other engineers can understand and build upon
Skills
- 1-3 years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems or services
- Strong fundamentals in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, Python, Go, or similar)
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or distributed data stores
- Eager to learn, ask great questions, and aren't afraid to work on unfamiliar problems
- Work well with others, communicate clearly, and actively seek feedback
Company Overview
- Strava is a social fitness app that tracks running, cycling, and workouts, connecting athletes. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.strava.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Strava has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 14 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 6 in 2022, 12 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.