Engineering Manager (Full-Stack)

• Join Runna as a Full-Stack Engineering Manager, working hybrid from London 3 days a week. • Lead a medium-sized team of around 4–8+ engineers on the Train Team. • Work with modelling teams on features core to Runna’s mission, such as adapting plans around holidays and B races. • Build in-app experiences around Runna’s AI and ML tooling and new training plans. • Put people leadership first, backed by strong technical judgement. • Join a fast-moving team that shipped 99 app releases and 443 API releases in 2024.

• Bring 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership or engineering management. • Show experience leading engineers in a fast-paced product environment through planning, delivery and development. • Bring a track record of delivering complex projects end to end in cross-functional teams. • Align stakeholders across engineering, product and design, and coordinate work across teams. • Raise the bar on architecture, design and implementation without being the primary coder. • Communicate company context clearly and surface risks early. • Know modern product engineering, ideally TypeScript, React Native, AWS and serverless architectures. • Champion continuous deployment, test automation, pair programming and shared code ownership.

• Bring experience leading teams on consumer mobile products, especially React Native apps at scale. • Show full-stack delivery experience from mobile to backend services and cloud infrastructure. • Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes and developer productivity. • Bring experience with AWS services and serverless architecture patterns. • Show hands-on experience with SwiftUI or native mobile development. • Bring a personal interest in health, fitness or sports technology.

• Lead, support and grow your team with clear context and accountability. • Own team delivery from planning through release, aligned to business goals. • Partner with Product, Design and other Engineering teams to manage priorities and dependencies. • Lead through ambiguous problems by spotting risks and driving solutions. • Encourage experimentation and thoughtful risk-taking. • Hold engineers accountable for performant, scalable, secure and maintainable systems. • Manage goal setting, performance reviews, career development and promotions. • Build a team culture of psychological safety and inclusion. • Partner with Recruiting to make strong hiring and levelling decisions. • Drive organisation-wide initiatives that improve how engineering builds, plans and hires.

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 £100,000–£112,000 plus Strava stock through long-term incentive programmes. • Work flexibly, typically 3 days a week in the Vauxhall office. • Take 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays. • Get free Runna and Strava subscriptions for you and 3 friends. • Receive a yearly allowance for gear, events and the gym, plus a Headspace membership. • Get Bupa private health insurance, a workplace pension and Modern Health mental wellness support. • Access Carrot fertility, hormonal health and family-forming support.

Runna is a running training app that gives everyday runners world-class training plans, coaching and community, from improving a 5k time to finishing a first marathon. It was named one of Apple’s three global finalists for iPhone App of the Year in 2024 and was acquired by Strava in 2025. Runna aims to become the leading global training platform for millions of runners.