About This Role
Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 125 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.
This role is on the Subscription Growth Team, which is responsible for subscription infrastructure and product experience at Strava.
We work on Strava’s platform for web and mobile payments and subscriptions, as well as lifecycle experimentation, to grow our subscriber base.
We partner closely with our finance team on core subscription data and our marketing team to support acquisition and retention efforts.
Our systems are used by the other engineers to build a world-class experience for our subscribers.
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA.
For more information on compensation and benefits, please click here.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will :
- Work with a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build Strava’s subscription platform and product
- Help define the future of payments and subscriptions at Strava
- Deliver backend services in large, reliable, and scalable distributed systems.
You will be successful here by :
- Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava
- Own your work and partner with cross-functional peers to ensure services are adequately scoped and implemented.
- Contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture
- Be willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone.
We’re excited about you because :
- Have built services in a production environment, using languages like (but not limited to) Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go, etc.
- Have experience with relational or NoSQL databases in production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra)
- Have experience with open-source distributed systems technologies (we use Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker)
- Have experience working with or are excited to learn about subscriptions and payments