Senior Staff Engineer

Location
FATMAP has offices in Chamonix, France, Berlin, Germany, Vilnius, and Lithuania, and supports fully remote employees across the EU. Candidates must be located within +- 1 hour of Central European Time to be considered for this role.


About This Role
Strava is the leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world, with US offices located in San Francisco and Denver and over 100 million athletes in 195 countries. If you sweat you’re an athlete, and Strava’s mobile apps and website connect millions of active people every day.


Strava recently announced the acquisition of FATMAP, which is revolutionizing the way people discover, plan, live, and share their adventures. Their advanced 3D mapping technology, outdoor toolkit, and curated adventure index are used by top professionals and a rapidly growing community of outdoor enthusiasts, allowing them to enjoy better, safer adventures.


FATMAP is expanding its core technology development efforts. They are looking for an experienced and hands-on Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Architect to strengthen their teams with their expertise.


FATMAP has the best tools for terrain analysis combined with the content discovery that users expect from a modern mapping product. To keep the FATMAP experience ahead of competing products, they are pushing their technology even further.


FATMAP’s mapping stack is using bleeding edge technologies, is fully cloud-based, and to a large extent automated, enabling them to produce imagery, vector, and layer-based mashes laying the fundament to achieve the stunning mapping experience of clients powered by this technology.


FATMAP’s business is B2C, creating great services and applications for end-users. Their next-generation clients follow clean architecture patterns, using the most recent frameworks and utterly modern SW design, connecting to their microservices landscape via GraphQL.


We are looking for people who are excited to face these challenges. You will work in the chief technology office with peers sharing the same vision, reporting directly to the CTO.


For more information on compensation and benefits, please click here.


You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

 
Drive deliberate, clear, and consistent software design


 
Understand requirements and convert them into specifications helping to create solution architecture for given use cases


 
Work with subject matter experts and domain owners on cross-functional challenges


 
Hands-on, pragmatic contribution to the solution, either as tracer bullets or as part of the engineering team


 
Take steps to learn and understand required technologies, tools, and approaches where needed





You will be successful here by:

 
Mentoring other engineers and up-leveling the organization by writing documentation, and posts and giving tech talks about your work.


 
Acting as the librarian of the stack, connecting people, and teams and connecting the dots


 
Designing solutions to growth, product, and technology challenges, which are carried out by engineering in general or yourself in particular





We’re excited about you because:

 
12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture


 
In-depth knowledge of functional and object-oriented design


 
Experience in the mapping space


 
In-depth understanding of application architecture, cross-platform development, distributed systems, and API design


 
Rock solid, language-agnostic engineering skills


 
Familiarity with Git


 
Fluent in at least two programming languages (ideally at least one is C++, Golang, Ruby, or Python)


 
Ability to work asynchronously in English. We are a distributed company, and we communicate a lot in writing and chatting over zoom. Good English language skills are a must, as is a disciplined approach to documentation and tickets, and a friendly, collaborative demeanor.



About Strava
Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.


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, 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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.


In light of the global pandemic, Strava is currently working in a fully remote capacity. As always, we remain committed to fully supporting our employees, especially their mental health and wellbeing, through these challenging times. Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!


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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