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About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our engineering organization is looking for a motivated and experienced iOS engineer at Staff level to join Strava’s mobile team in San Francisco. A Staff Engineer at Strava is an Individual Contributor in a technical leadership position. You will be reporting to a Director of Engineering, working across two teams: Achieve and Explore. Achieve’s charter is to help active people achieve their athletic goals. They own features like our Progress and Training experiences, the Activity Page and Athlete Intelligence. Explore’s charter is to help our athletes explore the world around them. They own features like Routes, Segments and how our users interact with Maps.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office—roughly three days per week.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Collaborate with all members of your product development team, product managers, engineers, designers and others to identify and execute on opportunities to further extend Strava’s best in class mobile offering.
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to guarantee technical excellence within your own work and the work of the team.
• Champion the evolution of Strava’s technological landscape, driving the adoption of advanced technologies and practices.
• Be a part of Strava’s Staff group, coordinating iOS development across product teams
• Pro-actively mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership to the team. Support the consistent up-leveling of our engineers and engineering team, yourself included.
• Deliver your best ever feature work to directly impact tens of millions of engaged users.

You will be successful here by:

• Representing and leading strategic initiatives that shape the future of the team and department.
• Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava.
• Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences.
• Using your in-depth knowledge of all things iOS to help drive technical conversations with peers from different backgrounds, across different teams.
• Being willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone.

We’re excited about you because you have:

• Proficiency and hands-on experiences in iOS development using Swift, ObjC, SwiftUI / UIKit.
• Work with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Core Data, and Core Animation in a production environment.
• Experience working with large, modularized applications that use dependency injection tools and connect to back-end services.
• At least some experience in using GraphQL.
• Stay up-to-date and experiment with the latest iOS technologies, breaking down their objective engineering value, to share and compare opinions with other engineers.
• A product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to solve real business problems.
• Enjoy working on mobile apps at all levels – from optimizing network requests to pixel perfect animations.
• Coordinated with fellow Android and Server engineers to maintain clean code and consider common touch points and share best practices across the stack.
• Led technical initiatives and have supported other technical leads on their own initiatives.
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases with an appreciation for the challenges posed by each within a fast evolving codebase with many contributors.
• Enjoyed mentoring engineers within your team and beyond.

Compensation Overview

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: $210,000 - $230,000. The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include, equity, or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

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About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

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.

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