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.

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!

We follow a hybrid model that translates to most of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — four days per week.

Available Internship:

Strava is looking for software engineering interns for a range of disciplines. This Server internship would be on the Internal Platform team. The Internal Platform team builds and maintains the development platform that powers our engineering organization. The team works closely with engineers across the organization to understand their needs and design solutions. We create reliable, scalable frameworks, tooling, and standards that enable product teams to write, build, and deploy code quickly and safely.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to foundational systems that power Strava’s engineering organization and enable product teams to move faster and ship safely.

• Collaborate with our internal partners in product 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

What you'll bring to the team:

• Are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with an expected graduation date of May 2026, December 2026, or May 2027 — OR– have recently completed or are currently enrolled in a coding bootcamp, technical training program, or are transitioning into software engineering through equivalent practical experience.

• Have experience writing efficient, reusable code in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Ruby).

• Demonstrate strong fundamentals in coding best practices, documentation, and testing.

• Have experience building projects that handle meaningful scale or data complexity through coursework, internships, or personal work.

• Bonus Qualifications

  • Are familiar with version control systems (e.g., Git) and have exposure to CI/CD concepts (e.g., GitHub Actions).

  • Have exposure to databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and cloud or container technologies (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) through coursework, internships, or personal projects.
    

If you don’t meet every single qualification but are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

The Summer Internship Program:

• This is a paid internship

• Length of program: 10-12 weeks (Summer 2026 roughly June through August).

• Working Hours: 40 hours per week

• The program will be in our San Francisco, CA office with a hybrid office attendance requirement of 4 days per week

• Housing Stipend for Summer is provided to live in SF for 3 months

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.