Software Engineering Intern, Android

About This 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 Final date to receive applications on Monday, April 14th.

• Android (SF)
  • Achieve Team:
    The Achieve team plays a key role in Strava’s mission to help athletes track their progress and reach their personal bests. Dedicated to enhancing the subscriber experience, the team builds and refines features that focus on data visualization, progress tracking, and athlete engagement.

• 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 code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
  
  Share your knowledge by giving lunch & learns, writing blog posts, and giving tech talks

• 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.

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 Postgre
  
  SQL 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.

• The program will be in our SF office with a hybrid office attendance requirement of 3-4 days per week

• Housing Stipend for Summer is provided to live in these cities

• Length of program: 10-12 weeks (Summer 2025 roughly June through August).

• Working Hours:
  
  40 hours per week

• This is a paid internship at $40.00 per hour

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.

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