Software Engineering Intern, Foundation

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 application closes on Monday, April 14th. 

Available Internships 

• Foundation (DENVER)
  • The Foundation team builds and maintains the core infrastructure and platform that power our engineering organization. Our Infrastructure and API/Platform teams work together to provide scalable datastores, efficient workload management, and a seamless development platform that integrates frameworks, languages, and tools.

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.

The Summer Internship Program: 

• The program will be in our Denver 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 

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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