Senior Android Engineer - Trust & Safety

Strava; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports technology company in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to enhance the trust and safety of its community. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop features impacting millions of users, ensuring a trustworthy mobile experience. The role demands empathy and innovation, with a flexible hybrid work environment. A competitive salary of $160,000 to $190,000 reflects the value of your skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Experience building Android applications in a production environment using Kotlin.
• Understand and experiment with the latest Android technologies.
• Focus on product development to solve real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers.
• Define the future of the Android app at Strava.
• Impact the experience of millions of athletes.

Skills

Full-stack development experience

User-centric product development

Android application development in Kotlin

Experience with Jetpack Compose

Technical leadership and mentoring

Job description

About This Role

Strava is the leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world, with over 150 million athletes in 185 countries. If you sweat you’re an athlete, and Strava’s mobile apps and website connect millions of active people every day! No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our Trust and Safety engineering team. This team is responsible for developing features that foster a trustworthy environment on Strava by protecting the physical and emotional safety of our athletes. As an Android Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to design, develop, and optimize features that impact millions of users worldwide. You will help shape the future of our mobile experience and contribute to the evolution of Strava’s product.

We are a subscription-based, consumer-facing business, so this role requires empathy with Strava’s community to fuel their long-term happiness as well as our long-term business impact.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office—roughly three days per week.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with a team of engineers, designers, product managers and analysts building a safe and trustworthy experience for Strava users.
• Help define the future of the Android app at Strava.
• Directly impact the experience of tens of millions of athletes.
• Work alongside a close community of peers in a hybrid work environment.

You will be successful here by:

• Excelling at user-centric product development.
• Building beautiful, smooth, delightful mobile experiences.
• Mentoring other engineers and providing technical leadership to the team through forums like tech talks.
• Using your in-depth knowledge of all things Android to help drive technical conversations with peers from different backgrounds, across different teams.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Have full-stack development experience building Android applications in a production environment using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose (a plus).
• Stay up to date and experiment with the latest Android technologies.
• Have a product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to solve real business problems.
• Enjoy working on mobile apps at all levels – from networking up to user interfaces and everything in between.
• Have expertise in building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques.
• Can collaborate with Android, iOS, and Server engineers in order to ship features.
• Have experience with or are excited to learn more about developing trust and safety solutions such as reporting, moderation, and blocking and muting.

We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s core technologies and your role in developing them. For more on Strava’s engineering team check out the Engineering Blog. It covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to personal perspectives on what it’s like to be an engineer at Strava.

Compensation Overview

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: $160,000 to $190,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.

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Why Join Us?

Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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