Engineering Manager, Subscriptions & Payments (Hybrid)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team in San Francisco with a hybrid model. You will lead backend engineers responsible for the payments and subscription platform, while still coding and shaping architecture.

Grow a small team and own critical systems. You will stay hands-on, drive the roadmap, balance reliability with delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership on priorities.

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).
• Experience with payments, billing, or subscription systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend engineers building the subscriptions and payments backend.
• Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase and make architecture decisions with your team.
• Hire, coach, and retain engineers across multiple levels.

Skills

Backend engineering

Engineering management

Distributed systems

Payments/subscriptions

Ruby/Java/Scala/Python/Go

Code ownership

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Strava is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team in San Francisco with a hybrid model. You will lead backend engineers responsible for the payments and subscription platform, while still coding and shaping architecture.

Grow a small team and own critical systems. You will stay hands-on, drive the roadmap, balance reliability with delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership on priorities.