Software Engineer, Full Stack (Senior)

Runna; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing fitness tech startup is seeking a seasoned software engineer to join their Cross-Functional Engineering Team. You will be responsible for architecting and delivering new features for their innovative application, ensuring a world-class user experience. The ideal candidate has strong TypeScript/JavaScript knowledge, experience with React Native and AWS, and a passion for building impactful technology. This position offers a competitive salary and a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

25 days holiday allowance

Strava membership

Private health insurance

Money for gear and events

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in software engineering required.
• Experience in deploying features end-to-end.
• Comfortable with iterative development processes.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building, testing new features across the full stack.
• Working with the Product team to identify best solutions.
• Maintaining developer tooling and CI/CD pipeline.

Skills

Strong TypeScript/JavaScript experience

React Native experience

AWS experience

Knowledge of CI/CD

Full-Stack development

Tools

React Native

Typescript

GraphQL

AWS Lambda

Terraform

Job description

We're putting together a talented team to build the #1 training platform for Runners

We help everyday runners become outstanding by building an incredible app providing world-class training, coaching and community for everyone, whether you're improving your 5k time or training for your first marathon.

We’re growing extremely fast! In November 2023 we closed a $6.5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex and Creator Ventures. In 2024, we were selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for the2024 iPhone App of the Year, reflecting the innovation and impact of what we’ve built & now in 2025 we have ****just been acquired by Strava! 🤯🎉

Our ambition is huge: to become the go-to global leading training platform for millions of runners everywhere. We’re growing with purpose and looking for people who want to build something meaningful with lasting impact. With the recent acquisition by Strava accelerating our journey, now is a really magical time to join 🚀

The Team You’ll be Joining:

We are looking for talented, creative and positive team players to join our highly-skilled Cross-Functional Engineering Team to help deliver new features for our iOS, Android and Apple watch applications and third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Fitbit Suuntu etc). You will work closely with our founders and CTO to help shape the future of Runna, who will support you all along this exciting journey.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Architecting, building, testing and delivering new features across the full stack
• Working with the Product team to identify the most suitable solution for the best customer experience
• Always be on hand to help other team members when they need help on technical matters
• Help us operate more efficiently, by building and maintaining our developer tooling and CI/CD pipeline
• We rotate the responsibility of releases across each team member, so you will get the opportunity to lead the process and deploy changes to production

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript experience
• Able to work in a highly skilled engineering team in a fast-paced, iterative environment. In 2024 we shipped:
• 99 mobile app releases (iOS and Android)
• 443 API releases
• 237 modelling backend releases
• 4+ years experience in your main expertise area (Frontend, Backend etc)
• Comfortable picking up new things and working on technologies outside your comfort zone
• Are skilled in delivering features end-to-end, from architecture design and building through to releasing, testing and supporting
• Enthusiasm for our ways of working which include:
• Iterative development, continuous deployment and test automation
• Knowledge sharing, pair programming, collaborative design & development
• Shared code ownership & cross-functional teams
• Have experience with React Native (worked on large scale applications)
• Have experience with AWS
• Are experienced in delivering features full-stack

Bonus Points If You:

• Are experienced in SwiftUI
• Are experienced in deployment, releasing cycles or CI/CD
• Have experience with Serverless architectures
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tooling (e.g. CDK, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Have experience in open source contributions, including reporting bugs/issues in GitHub, testing new releases, or contributing to code

Our Tech Stack

Check out our Tech Radar here which we are constantly iterating, and below you can find a small reflection of our current tech stack:

Frontend:

• React Native (iOS and Android)
• Typescript
• GraphQL (Apollo Client)
• Fastlane
• SwiftUI (Apple Watch)
• Maestro E2E tests

Backend:

• Serverless (AWS)
• Lambdas (NodeJS & Python)
• AWS AppSync
• DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, SageMaker
• Snowflake

All the other good stuff:

• Sentry
• GitHub Actions
• Intercom, Mixpanel
• RevenueCat
• App Store Connect / Play Store
• Google Tag Manager

Salary and Benefits

We’re offering a salary of £80,000-£95,000 per year, depending on experience, plus participation in Strava's long-term incentive (stock) programs. Overview of our benefits is below:

We’re also committed to continually evolving our benefits to support you as we grow. Here is a brief overview what we currently offer in the UK 🇬🇧

• 🏢Flexible working – we typically spend 2–3 days a week together in our Vauxhall office
• 🏝️25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (which you can take whenever suits you)
• 📱Runna subscriptions for you and 5 of your friends (get ready to be your friends fave person or save them for xmas presents!)
• 🧡Strava membership!
• 🧘Headspace membership
• 💸Money every year to spend on gear, events and the gym!
• 🤑We’ll give you a voucher to spend on our website so you can buy yourself new Runna kit (and will renew this every year on your work anniversary)
• 🏥 Private health insurance with Bupa and workplace pension scheme
• 💖Modern Health ia a mental wellness platform and app that combines technology with professional support to improve mental well-being and reduce stress
• 🥕Carrot fertility support - this benefits provider can provide inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits to our global employee population and takes the burden off what we know can be a stressful process.

Please see more info on our amazing benefits here: Benefits at Runna

Our Interview Process

Our aim is to keep the interview process as straightforward and enjoyable as possible, and will consist of the following stages:

1. Getting to Know You + Live Coding (45-minute video call, first 25 mins will be an introductory chat followed by two live coding exercises from https://leetcode.com/)
2. Take home technical task (max 1-2 hours to complete, or if you have something interesting you recently built and would like to showcase then that's perfectly OK)
3. 1.5-hour technical interview (the first half of the call will be used to discuss the take-home technical task from the previous stage and the second half will consist of system design and some general architecture/tech questions)
4. Meet the team (in-person chat with founder(s) and rest of the team)

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better accommodate you throughout the interview process - this can be from scheduling interviews around childcare commitments to accessibility requirements. We want you to show your best self in the process, so please speak to your Talent Partner!

How to Apply:

Please apply through this link (this will take you to our Workable career hub). Please note, we are unable to accept any applications outside of Workable. If you have any questions regarding the status of your application, please email [e-mail]

Still have questions or want to know more? Check out ourCareers Page✨

🌎We’re unfortunately unable to sponsor for this role