Engineering Manager, Subscriptions

Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager on our Subscriptions team. This team owns Strava's payments and subscription platform, both the infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers. We're looking for a technical manager who still writes code and wants to grow a small team of backend engineers while owning some of Strava's most critical systems. We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office, three days per week.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of server engineers building Strava's subscription and payments backend, systems that power how millions of athletes subscribe, pay, and manage their subscriptions; Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure. You'll partner closely with product and engineering leadership on priorities, balancing platform investment, reliability, and delivery; Drive both platform and product work. Your team owns our subscription infrastructure and the user-facing products it powers; Stay hands-on in the codebase. You'll write code, own technical designs, and make architecture decisions alongside your team, not just review them; Hire, develop, and retain engineers at multiple levels. Coach people through career growth, give direct feedback, and build a team that gets stronger over time; Keep payment and subscription services reliable and healthy. You own on-call, incident response, and the operational bar for your team's systems; Partner cross-functionally with product, design, accounting, and marketing to identify the highest-leverage work and ship it; Treat ownership seriously. Your team's systems handle payments, billing, and subscription state for millions of users. You take reliability, correctness, and incident response personally; Grow your engineers. You'll manage people at different career stages and help each one develop, whether that's getting someone to senior or helping a more experienced engineer take on larger technical ownership; Build for the long term. You make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping now and investing in the platform, and you can explain those tradeoffs clearly to partners; Stay technical. You're not managing from a distance. You have informed opinions on system design and you can unblock engineers by jumping into the code; Make the team better. You care about how the team works, not just what they ship. You'll fix what's slowing people down and build processes that stick

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering; 2+ years of engineering management experience, or demonstrated tech lead experience where you were already doing the job of coaching engineers, driving technical direction, and owning delivery for a team; Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, or Go); Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar); Experience with, or genuine interest in, payments, billing, or subscription systems; A track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship