Staff Engineer, Product Engineering (Backend)

the Team 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience, with a track record of shipping consumer products. Experience acting as a tech lead — facilitating team processes and driving execution. A bias toward building and shipping: you've taken features from 0→1 and care about getting real product into athletes' hands, not just designing systems in the abstract. Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale: making architecture decisions, defending trade-offs, and thinking about how a system evolves over time. Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Scala, Go, Python) with comfort picking up others, and willingness to work across the stack when needed. Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS). Experience with relational and NoSQL databases in production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra). Resilience with changes and the ability to navigate ambiguous situations, creating clarity for yourself and others. An ability to look around corners and predict the future, making decisions now that set us up for success down the line. A genuine interest in working closely with product and design partners and leading a team to prioritize the right work and deliver it well. You're interested in more than just putting your head down on an assigned project. We're not looking for 100% coverage on all of these — if you match most of them, we'd love to hear from you: Experience shipping consumer-facing features at scale. Comfort working full-stack or in client code when a feature needs it. Familiarity with server-driven UI patterns. Experience with large-scale system migrations (e.g., moving a critical service from one language/framework to another). For more information on

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