Payments & Subscriptions Tech Lead

The GIST Ltd; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers, own the payments and subscription platform, and stay hands-on while growing a small team. The role blends technical leadership with people management and strategic roadmap ownership.

You'll partner with product and engineering leadership to balance reliability, investment, and delivery, ensuring scalable, secure payment and subscription systems for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in backend engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience or equivalent coaching and delivery ownership.
• Experience with distributed systems and production infrastructure.
• Experience or interest in payments, billing, or subscription systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend engineers building the subscriptions and payments platform.
• Own the technical roadmap for payments and subscription infrastructure.
• Hands-on coding, architecture decisions, and code reviews with the team.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers at multiple career levels.
• Own on-call, incident response, and reliability for the services.

Skills

Backend development

People management

System design

Mentorship

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Strava in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Subscriptions team. You will lead backend engineers, own the payments and subscription platform, and stay hands-on while growing a small team. The role blends technical leadership with people management and strategic roadmap ownership.

You'll partner with product and engineering leadership to balance reliability, investment, and delivery, ensuring scalable, secure payment and subscription systems for millions of users.