Engineering Manager

• Lead a high-performing team of roughly 4 to 8+ engineers, guiding them independently to deliver meaningful business outcomes across a product or platform area. • Take on a people leadership role first, grounded in strong technical judgement. • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering peers to align goals, navigate ambiguity, and keep the team delivering high-quality work at pace. • Create the conditions for engineers to grow, experiment, and do the best work of their careers. • Sit on the Train Team, working with the modelling teams on features core to Runna’s mission. • Integrate work such as adapting plans around holidays and B races, supporting cutting-edge new plans, and building in-app experiences around Runna’s AI and ML tooling. • Join at a magical moment, following Runna’s 2025 acquisition by Strava. • Work hybrid from the Vauxhall office, typically three days a week.

• Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful time in technical leadership or engineering management. • Bring experience leading and managing engineers in a fast-paced product environment, ideally owning a team through planning, delivery, and people development. • Show a strong track record delivering complex projects end-to-end in cross-functional environments with evolving priorities or ambiguity. • Align stakeholders across engineering, product, and design, coordinating work where multiple teams are involved. • Bring strong technical judgement, raising the bar on architecture, design, and implementation quality without being the primary coder on every project. • Communicate excellently, translating company context into clear team direction and surfacing risks early. • Work comfortably in a highly skilled, fast-paced team that shipped 99 mobile app releases, 443 API releases, and 237 modelling backend releases in 2024. • Bring technical fluency across modern product engineering environments, with TypeScript and JavaScript, React Native, AWS, and serverless architectures especially valuable. • Advocate for modern engineering practices including iterative development, continuous deployment, test automation, pair programming, collaborative design, and shared code ownership. • Be London based and able to work three days a week from the Vauxhall office.

• Bring experience leading teams working on consumer mobile products, especially React Native apps at scale. • Deliver impactful work across the full stack, from mobile to backend services and cloud infrastructure. • Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and developer productivity confidently. • Bring experience with AWS services and serverless architecture patterns. • Bring hands-on experience with SwiftUI or native mobile development. • Thrive in autonomous, high-growth environments and bring clarity without heavy direction. • Bring a personal interest in health, fitness, or sports technology. • Let your Talent Partner know if anything would help you show your best self during the process, from scheduling around childcare commitments to accessibility requirements.

• Lead, support, and grow a medium-sized team of engineers, creating the clarity, context, and accountability they need to do their best work. • Own team delivery for a product or platform area, driving execution from planning through release. • Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and coordinate cross-team work. • Lead through open-ended or ambiguous problems independently, identifying risks, proposing solutions, and driving resolutions. • Encourage experimentation and thoughtful risk-taking, making space for exploratory work where it adds value. • Hold engineers accountable for high-quality technical designs that result in performant, scalable, secure, and maintainable systems. • Coach engineers and emerging leaders, delegating opportunities for others to step into leadership. • Manage all aspects of people management independently, including goal setting, performance reviews, career development, and promotions. • Create a team environment built on psychological safety and inclusion. • Communicate company context clearly so the team sees how their work connects to wider strategy. • Drive organisation-level initiatives that improve how Runna builds, plans, hires, and collaborates across engineering. • Partner with Recruiting and interviewers to calibrate assessments and make strong hiring and levelling decisions. • Track delivery, unblock work, and improve team effectiveness through healthy processes and continuous improvement.

Runna is one of the most exciting fitness startups in the UK right now, and the Strava acquisition only makes the opportunity bigger. In under four years from launch, Dom and Ben built Runna from a website selling personalised PDF training plans to a globally rated running coaching app, a finalist for Apple's iPhone App of the Year, and ultimately an acquisition by the world's largest fitness community. The team has grown to over 150 people across London and Boston, and Strava has publicly committed to investing further in growing both the team and the product. What stands out on Glassdoor (4.9/5 from 31 reviews, with 100% of employees recommending it) is how consistently people praise the culture, the kindness of their colleagues, and the quality of the leadership. Benefits are genuinely strong for a company this size: private health insurance, enhanced parental leave (up to 20 weeks fully paid), Strava equity, a smartwatch as you pass probation, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a paid hour each week to go for a run during work hours. They operate a flexi-hybrid model, typically three days a week in their Vauxhall office. The team runs bi-weekly together, and Workout Wednesdays include exercise plus a free lunch. The main thing to be aware of is that this is a fast-paced startup environment where priorities can shift quickly, which some reviewers flag as a challenge. There is also a slight bias toward hiring passionate runners, though this has been improving. If you want to work on a product that helped millions of runners train, alongside kind and ambitious people, with the backing and scale of Strava behind you, Runna is a brilliant opportunity.

• Earn a salary of £100,000 to £112,000 depending on experience, plus participation in Strava’s long-term incentive stock programs. • Work flexibly, typically spending three days a week together in the Vauxhall office. • Take 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, whenever suits you. • Get free Runna and Strava subscriptions for yourself and three friends. • Use a Headspace membership and Modern Health, a mental wellness platform combining technology with professional support. • Receive money every year to spend on gear, events, and the gym. • Access private health insurance with Bupa and a workplace pension scheme. • Use Carrot fertility support, covering inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits. • Work with a modern stack including React Native, TypeScript, GraphQL, serverless AWS, DynamoDB, SageMaker, and Snowflake.

Runna is building the number one training platform for runners, helping everyday runners become outstanding through an app offering world-class training, coaching and community, whether they are improving a 5k time or training for a first marathon. It closed a $6.5M funding round led by JamJar in November 2023 with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex and Creator Ventures, was selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for iPhone app of the year in 2024, and was acquired by Strava in 2025. Its ambition is to become the go-to global training platform for millions of runners everywhere.