Senior iOS Engineer - Subscriptions
Role summary
Strava is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer for its Subscriptions team to build and evolve the subscription and checkout experiences within the #1 fitness app. This role involves developing new products, enhancing existing features, and partnering with cross-functional teams to shape product direction. The engineer will also mentor other engineers and contribute to the team's culture. The position requires 5+ years of iOS engineering experience, proficiency in SwiftUI, UIKit, and occasional Objective-C, a strong understanding of mobile architecture, and experience building sophisticated UI components. The role is hybrid, with more than half of the time spent in the San Francisco office.
About Strava
Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. 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.
About This Role
We’re seeking a Senior iOS Engineer for the
Subscriptions
team. You will collaborate daily with cross-functional partners in product, design, analytics, and marketing as well as Strava's 20+ iOS engineers through shared architecture reviews, pair programming sessions, code reviews, and our active iOS guild. Join the org behind the #1 fitness app and the 2025 Apple Watch App of the Year and help us continue setting the bar for iOS excellence.
Help build and evolve Strava’s subscription and checkout experiences. Work on the iOS surfaces that power our free-to-paid journey, including paywalls, purchase flows, and StoreKit integrations, reaching millions of athletes around the world. Your contributions will be central to Strava’s growth and gives you meaningful ownership over highly visible product experiences.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop new and creative products that appeal to Strava’s end-users and partners
- Continuously enhance the product to drive consumer growth
- Partner deeply with product and design to shape features together through iteration and experimentation, shipping high-quality work through continuous refinement
- Set the technical direction on iOS and help shape the team’s culture
- Mentor engineers across the organization—sharing not just technical knowledge but the behaviors, habits, and decision-making frameworks that help engineers grow and succeed.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- You have 5+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent expertise in iOS engineering.
- You are well-versed in breaking down complex product requirements into tangible specs and plans.
- You have a firm foundation of SwiftUI and UIKit development and can navigate occasional Objective-C work.
- You care deeply about mobile architecture and scalability.
- You have demonstrated experience building sophisticated iOS components–from complex custom animations and gesture systems to novel interaction patterns that surprise and delight users.
- You excel at giving and receiving high-quality feedback, have strong product intuition and design sense, and foster a culture of continuous improvement in the teams you're a part of.
- You are comfortable using data to make decisions, bring others along, and understand the impact of your work.
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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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Compensation Range: $180K - $200K
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Buildings with an Ocean View Find all buildings that have an ocean view. Input: heights = [1,2,3,4] Output: [3] Explanation: Since the ocean is to the right, only the rightmost tallest building (index 3) is not blocked by any others.
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