Engineering Manager, Subscriptions & Payments

JDS Sports; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava in San Francisco seeks an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers, own the payments and subscription platform, and balance reliability with product delivery. You’ll partner with product and leadership to shape the roadmap while mentoring engineers and growing a high-impact team.

The role blends hands-on coding with architectural decisions, on-call responsibility, and scaling systems used by millions of athletes worldwide in a hybrid on-site setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, or demonstrated tech lead experience.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (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.
• Track record of helping engineers grow through direct feedback, mentorship, and sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of server engineers building Strava's subscription and payments backend.
• Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase and contribute architectural decisions.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers at multiple levels and coach career growth.
• Keep payment and subscription services reliable and healthy, including on-call and incident response.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, accounting, and marketing to identify high-impact work.

Skills

Backend engineering

Engineering leadership

Code literacy

Distributed systems

Payments/subscriptions

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Strava in San Francisco seeks an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers, own the payments and subscription platform, and balance reliability with product delivery. You’ll partner with product and leadership to shape the roadmap while mentoring engineers and growing a high-impact team.

The role blends hands-on coding with architectural decisions, on-call responsibility, and scaling systems used by millions of athletes worldwide in a hybrid on-site setting.