Payments & Subscriptions Engineering Manager

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager on the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers responsible for Strava's payments and subscription platform, owning both infrastructure and user-facing products.

The role combines technical leadership with people management in a hybrid model requiring on-site presence in San Francisco three days per week. You'll stay hands-on, guide architectural decisions, and own the technical roadmap while partnering with product and engineering leadership to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience or demonstrated tech-lead experience coaching engineers and owning delivery.
• 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.
• A track record of helping engineers grow through 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 in collaboration with product and engineering leadership.
• Drive platform and product work for subscription infrastructure and user-facing products.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase, designing and making architecture decisions with your team.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers at multiple levels to build a stronger team.
• Maintain reliability and incident response for payment and subscription services.

Skills

Backend engineering

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Payments systems

Code ownership

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Strava is hiring an Engineering Manager on the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers responsible for Strava's payments and subscription platform, owning both infrastructure and user-facing products.

The role combines technical leadership with people management in a hybrid model requiring on-site presence in San Francisco three days per week. You'll stay hands-on, guide architectural decisions, and own the technical roadmap while partnering with product and engineering leadership to