Senior Staff Software Engineer - Android

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.

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 are 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.

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