Server Engineer, Comms & Experimentation

Strava is the app for active people, with a mission to motivate individuals to live their best active lives. They are hiring a Server Engineer to join the Comms and Experimentation Platform team, where the engineer will work on building scalable platform capabilities for communications and experimentation that impact millions of athletes.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

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