Senior Android Engineer, Groups (San Francisco)

About This Role

Strava is the leading subscription platform at the center of connected fitness, with more than 100 million community members in over 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 our Groups, Creators, and Social team at Strava, a cross-functional group dedicated to enhancing how athletes connect and interact on our platform. The team collaborates with engineers from all of Stravas technical areasiOS, Android, Web, and Serveras well as with diverse partners to develop engaging, athlete-facing features. We are pivotal in creating and managing major tools and services such as messaging, posts, video, photos, and clubs that define the social fabric of Strava. Additionally, we play a crucial role in advancing our technical vision and transitioning to cutting-edge technologies, ensuring a world-class experience for our community of athletes.

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Youre excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Engage in pioneering projects that influence how athletes communicate and share experiences, playing a key role in developing core functionalities that are central to the user experience.
• Participate in the evolution of Stravas technology landscape, contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies and practices.
• Take on responsibilities that expand your leadership capabilities and technical expertise within a forward-thinking team.
• Directly impact the experience of tens of millions of athletes.

You will be successful here by:

• Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava
• Taking ownership of your work, and partnering with cross-functional peers to ensure services are properly scoped and implemented.
• Building well-documented and easy-to-use systems that are quickly and widely adopted across our engineering organization.
• Contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture
• Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences.
• Mentoring other engineers and providing technical leadership to the team through forums like tech talks.
• Using your in-depth knowledge of all things Android to help drive technical conversations with peers from different backgrounds, across different teams.
• Be willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone

Were excited about you because:

• Have experience building Android applications in a production environment using Kotlin. Jetpack compose experience is a nice to have
• Have experience working with large, modularized applications that use dependency injection tools and GraphQL is a nice to have
• Stay up to date and experiment with the latest Android technologies.
• Have 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 networking up to user interfaces and everything in between.
• Have experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques.
• Can collaborate with Android, iOS, and Server engineers to ship features.

We'd love to talk to you about the future of Stravas core technologies and your role in developing them. For more on Stravas engineering team check out the Engineering Blog . It covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to personal perspectives on what its like to be an engineer at Strava.

About Strava

Strava is Swedish for strive, which epitomizes who we are and what we do. Were 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 worlds 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 were deeply committed to unlocking their potential, were dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. Were backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and were 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, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. 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, its 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.