Server Engineer, Comms & Experimentation

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

Strava is hiring a Server Engineer to work on a new Comms and Experimentation Platform team within our Horizontal Engineering organization. This is a ground-floor opportunity to help shape the platform that powers how Strava connects with athletes. As a Server Engineer for the Comms and Experimentation Platform team, you will be a founding member of the team, working alongside senior engineers to build scalable platform capabilities for communications and experimentation.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with a hybrid model that encourages face-to-face collaboration at least three days a week, while still offering flexibility for remote work.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

You Will Be Successful Here By:

• 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

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Have 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

• Are 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

We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them. Please take a look at the links below to learn about the exciting work we are doing:

• The Engineering Blog covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to how we have refined our interview process.

For information on benefits, please click here.

Why Join Us?

Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.