About the role
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 countries, Strava is where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, we help you 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.
Strava is looking for software engineering interns for a range of disciplines. As an Engineering Intern at Strava, you will be embedded in a team working on real projects that ship to our athletes and within the company, treated like a full-time member of the engineering team. You'll collaborate with cross functional teams that help us support and deliver to our athletes faster, while keeping them inspired and motivated.
We'll give you experienced mentors and all the tools you need to make a meaningful impact on our product. To see examples of what past interns have contributed, read our Engineering Blog!
This application closes on Monday, April 14th.
Available Internships
Web (SF)
Web Team: The Web Team is responsible for Strava's web presence, where athletes and subscribers go deep on activity data and global mapping functions. We're a horizontal team broadly responsible for maintaining and modernizing web technology. We also work cross-functionally with vertical team partners to realize their product visions in the browser.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will:
Build the next generation of the Strava experience alongside a team of passionate and talented engineers
Collaborate with our internal partners in product, design, marketing, analytics, and support
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable codeParticipate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledgeShare your knowledge by giving lunch & learns, writing blog posts, and giving tech talks
We're excited about you because:
Experience with a modern programming language.
Familiarity with version control. We use Github.
Demonstrable code in projects or Github.
Disciplined approach to testing your code.
If you are pursuing a CS degree at an undergraduate institution: graduation dates for university students: May 2025, December 2025, or May 2026.
Some of our Technical Expectations:
Finding one person with all of the following is almost impossible, so we're not looking for 100% coverage. If you have experience with at least a few of these, we'd love to hear from you:
Awareness of general coding best practices, documentation, and testing
Experience with at least one programming language such as Ruby, Java, Scala or Python. For iOS we use Swift and for Android we use Kotlin.
Have experience building mobile applications using Java and/or Kotlin (we use both).
Experience with relational data stores such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and some exposure to some key-value, columnar, or time series data stores such as Cassandra, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
Experience building production-quality systems to work with large amounts of data
Experience with AWS or another cloud provider such as Azure or GCP.
Experience deploying software with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Mesos.
About the company
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.
