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Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Subscriptions team, which owns the payments and subscription platform powering how millions of athletes subscribe, manage, and pay for services globally. This is a hands-on management role where you'll lead a small team of backend engineers while remaining actively involved in the codebase.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and grow a team of server engineers building Strava's subscription and payments backend infrastructure
- Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription systems, balancing platform investment, reliability, and delivery
- Drive both platform and product work, partnering with product, design, accounting, and marketing teams
- Write code, own technical designs, and make architecture decisions alongside your team
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers at multiple levels, providing coaching and direct feedback
- Ensure reliability and health of payment and subscription services, owning on-call and incident response
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping quickly and investing in long-term platform stability
- Build processes and team culture that enable engineers to do their best work
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering
- 2+ years of engineering management experience or demonstrated tech lead experience coaching engineers and driving technical direction
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go
- Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar)
- Track record of helping engineers grow through mentorship and sponsorship
Preferred:
- Experience with payments, billing, or subscription systems
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid in San Francisco (3 days per week on-site, more than half time in office). Strava is backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners, and Jackson Square Ventures, and is building the world's largest community of active people across 185+ countries.
