Server Engineer, Comms & Experimentation

Strava • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed