About the role

Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 125 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.

Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead our Mapping team within our Map Platform organization. This is an opportunity to be part of a team that is laying the foundation of rich and immersive map experiences that help our users plan, navigate and relive their activities. As an Engineering Manager for the Mapping team, you will be responsible for the execution of the Map Platform strategy and the management of the team.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our Berlin office—roughly three days per week.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will: Lead and Inspire: Build and mentor a skilled team of geospatial cloud engineers. You’ll foster an inclusive, high-performing culture where every voice is heard. Drive Innovation: Oversee the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-based mapping solutions that blend both raster and vector capabilities. Your work will be pivotal in powering rich, immersive map experiences for our global community. Collaborate and Strategize: Partner with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineering leaders to shape a clear roadmap. You’ll balance product priorities with technical best practices, ensuring our solutions are both user-friendly and technically robust. Communicate and Execute: Guide your team through agile development cycles, ensuring clear documentation and transparency using tools like Confluence and JIRA. Your strategic oversight will help steer projects from concept to delivery. We’re excited about you because you: Are an experienced engineering leader with a background in customer-facing, large-scale applications—ideally in the mapping or geospatial domain. Understand the technical challenges of managing geospatial data and have a proven record of delivering cloud-based solutions. Leverage robust data literacy to analyze complex datasets and translate insights into actionable strategies, ensuring our mapping solutions continually evolve to meet user needs. Beyond your technical expertise, you excel at coaching and developing talent, making tough decisions, and balancing competing priorities. Join a fast-growing team where your leadership will directly influence our global roadmap and for fun include the word Pegasus in your application.

We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing it. Please take a look at the links below to learn about the exciting work we are doing. The Engineering Blog covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to how we have refined our interview process.

Compensation Overview

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: €128,743 - €135,000 . The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include, equity, or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

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About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

Strava is 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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