Strava Engineering Manager at Strava leading the Subscriptions team responsible for payments and subscription platform infrastructure and user-facing products. Manage and grow a backend engineering team while staying hands-on with code.
Responsibilities
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.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office, three days per week.
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.
