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About This Role
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in 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 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.
Our engineering organization is looking for a motivated and experienced Android engineer at the Senior Staff level to join Strava’s mobile team in Berlin. A Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Strava is an individual contributor in a technical leadership position. You will be reporting to our Principal Engineer, working across our Product and Mobile foundation teams.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our Berlin office — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:
- Bring meaningful perspectives from across the industry to Strava
- Help define our mobile architecture through vision and execution
- 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 Android 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:
- Providing Android technical leadership role across multiple teams with responsibility for aligning technical plans
- Working with our other Sr. Staff Engineers to build a technical roadmap that drives substantial business value
- Establishing strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders across the organization
- Having a comprehensive view of the challenges within the engineering organization and using your experience and judgment to make decisions optimized for the wider organization
- Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava.
- Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences.
- Being willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- Advanced to Expert-level proficiency and hands-on experience in Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Knowledge and know-how of Android concepts such as: ViewModel, Room, Flows, and Coroutines in a production environment
- Experience working with large, modularized applications that use dependency injection tools and connect to back-end services.
- Experience using GraphQL.
- Stayed up to date and experiment with the latest Android 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.
- Enjoyed 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 considered common touchpoints and share best practices across the stack.
- Led technical initiatives and 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.
We’d love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them. For more on Strava’s 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 it’s like to be an engineer at Strava.
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: €175,000 - €185,000 . This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.
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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.
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