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In November 2023 we closed a $6.5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex and Creator Ventures. In 2024, we were selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for the iPhone app of the year, reflecting the innovation and impact of what we’ve built & in 2025 we were acquired by Strava!\nOur ambition is huge: to become the go-to global leading training platform for millions of runners everywhere. We’re growing with purpose and looking for people who want to build something meaningful with lasting impact. With the recent acquisition by Strava accelerating our journey, now is a really magical time to join.\nThe team you’ll join\nWe’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) to play a pivotal role in driving the technical success of Runna. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work across multiple squads, providing architectural direction, ensuring engineering excellence, and enabling the successful delivery of features across the entire Runna platform. We have a jam packed roadmap, with countless opportunities to champion new technologies, work on meaningful problems that impact millions of runners, and improve existing architecture to elevate the whole of our engineering team.\nWe follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site - 3 days per week in Runna's office based in London, UK.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nYou’ll be a multiplier for the engineering team; mentoring developers, improving processes, and guiding the evolution of our systems as we scale. We’re looking for someone who is not only technically excellent, but also a creative problem solver and collaborative leader who brings energy and clarity to fast-paced environments.\nLead the architectural design and technical strategy across multiple product teams, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.\n\nChampion how we adopt AI across our SDLC, from agentic workflows and automated code review through to the tooling and guardrails that help the wider team ship faster without lowering the bar.\n\nDrive the end-to-end delivery of key initiatives, working hands-on to build, test, and ship features across the full stack (mobile, backend, integrations).\n\nCoach and support engineers by providing technical guidance, mentorship, and code reviews without creating bottlenecks.\n\nCollaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering Leads to define the best solutions for user experience, balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical goals.\n\nOwn the release process and support a culture of reliable, continuous deployment-while enabling teams to ship confidently and independently.\n\nMaintain and grow a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.\n\nWhat you’ll bring to the team:\n6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on technical leadership and driving projects end-to-end.\n\nDeep expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, with a strong foundation across the full stack.\n\nHands-on experience putting AI to work in a real engineering organisation, whether that’s agentic workflows, automated code review, or internal agents. You have a clear view of where it pays off and where it doesn’t.\n\nFamiliarity shipping LLM-backed features to production, including prompt and context design, in a user facing product.\n\nBroad AWS experience across serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync), containers (ECS/EKS) and managed services, with no strong attachment to one deployment model.\n\nSkilled in defining and delivering features from initial architecture and design through to release, testing, and production support.\n\nAble to thrive in a highly skilled, fast-paced engineering team. So far in 2026, we shipped:\n49 mobile app releases (iOS and Android)\n\n878 API releases\n\n552 modelling backend releases\n\nProven ability to mentor engineers, support team growth, and guide complex projects from design to release.\n\nComfortable with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.\n\nAble to thrive in autonomous roles, taking ownership without heavy direction.\n\nBonus points if you have:\nExperience working with cross-platform frameworks, such as React Native\n\nHave hands-on experience with SwiftUI or native mobile development.\n\nAre confident working with and improving CI/CD pipelines, release cycles, and deployment processes.\n\nOur Tech Stack\nBelow you can find a small reflection of our current tech stack:\nFrontend:\nReact Native (iOS and Android)\n\nTypescript\n\nGraphQL (Apollo Client)\n\nFastlane\n\nSwiftUI (Apple Watch)\n\nMaestro E2E tests\n\nBackend:\nAWS (Serverless/Terraform)\n\nLambdas (NodeJS & Python)\n\nECS\n\nAppSync, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge\n\nSnowflake\n\nAll the other good stuff:\nSentry\n\nGitHub Actions\n\nIntercom, Mixpanel\n\nRevenueCat\n\nApp Store Connect / Play Store\n\nSalary and Benefits\nWe’re offering a salary of £110,000 - £131,000 per year, depending on experience, plus participation in Strava's long-term incentive (stock) programs. Overview of our benefits is below:\nWe’re also committed to continually evolving our benefits to support you as we grow. Here is a brief overview what we currently offer in the UK\nFlexible working - we typically spend 3 days a week together in our Vauxhall office\n\n25 days holiday, plus bank holidays\n\nFree Runna & Strava subscriptions for you and 3 of your friends (get ready to be your friends fave person or save them for holiday presents!)\n\nHeadspace membership\n\nMoney every year to spend on gear, events and the gym!\n\nPrivate health insurance with Bupa and workplace pension scheme\n\nModern Health is a mental wellness platform and app that combines technology with professional support to improve mental well-being and reduce stress\n\nCarrot fertility support - this benefits provider can provide inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits to our global employee population and takes the burden off what we know can be a stressful process.\n\nParenthood is an exciting, challenging and beautiful thing. Our Family Care Leave is here to support parents as they welcome their new arrival. In line with our commitment to inclusivity, we provide leave to parents irrespective of gender or path to parenthood (e.g. natural childbirth, surrogacy or adoption).\n\nPlease see more info on our amazing benefits here:Benefits at Runna\nOur Interview Process:\nOur aim is to keep the interview process as straightforward and enjoyable as possible, and will consist of the following stages:\nScreening call with Talent team (30 minute video call)\n\nGetting to Know You + Live Coding (45-minute video call, first 25 mins will be an introductory chat followed by two live coding exercises fromhttps://leetcode.com/)\n\nTake home technical task (max 1-2 hours to complete, or if you have something interesting you recently built and would like to showcase then that's perfectly OK)\n\n1.5-hour technical interview (the first half of the call will be used to discuss the take-home technical task from the previous stage and the second half will consist of system design and some general architecture/tech questions)\n\nMeet the team (in-person chat with founder(s) and rest of the team)\n\nPlease let us know if there’s anything we can do to better accommodate you throughout the interview process - this can be from scheduling interviews around childcare commitments to accessibility requirements. We want you to show your best self in the process, so please speak to your Talent Partner\nHow to Apply:\nPlease apply through this link (this will take you to our Ashby career hub). Please note, we are unable to accept any applications outside of Ashby. I f you have any questions regarding the status of your application, please email \nStill have questions or want to know more? 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