Senior Server Engineer II

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 200 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.

About This Role

Strava for Business (SfB) is the premier platform for brands to authentically connect with active minded consumers. The SfB Product team builds sponsored experiences that support millions of athletes in their athletic journey. We drive revenue crucial to Strava’s continued growth and success. We do this through a constant balance of user delight, business needs, and operational stability through creative and highly cross-functional collaboration.

We’re seeking a Senior Engineer II to join our eleven-person team to help us improve the challenges feature and build the next generation of sponsored products.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — typically three days per week.

What You’ll Do:

- Build new and creative products that appeal to Strava’s end-users and business partners alike
- Continuously enhance the Challenges product to drive usage and revenue growth
- Lead conversations between product, design, and business partners to find novel yet technically feasible solutions to business problems
- Plan and coordinate the delivery of complex projects from early ideation to launch
- Provide technical and operational support to business partners as part of an on-call rotation
- Help build a team culture of continuous iteration, experimentation, and incremental delivery
- Mentor engineers across the organization, sharing technical knowledge along with the habits and decision-making that help engineers grow

You Will Be Successful Here By:

- Showing Strong Ownership: You go beyond taking accountability for the reliability and correctness of the systems you build. You exercise good judgment on what is important for the team and proactively solve problems even if they sit outside your immediate domain.
- Staying Flexible to Business Needs: Sometimes problems require scrappy solutions that can be done quickly and sometimes we need to design a long-term ideal that sits outside today’s constraints. You are comfortable with either.
- Continuously Improving: You strive to make things a bit better every day for both yourself and your team. You excel at giving and receiving difficult feedback with good intent.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

- Experience building and operating complex, data-intensive backend systems in production at scale, with a track record of breaking large technical problems into well-scoped, executable work.
- Experience working in an operations-heavy environment and instilling operational excellence best practices across a team.
- Experience planning and coordinating large cross-functional projects while staying flexible through changing requirements.
- Familiarity with agentic coding tools and how to best leverage them to produce high-quality work.

It’s a Bonus If:

- You’ve worked with React, Android, or iOS and are happy to jump across platforms when needed.
- You’ve thrived in a startup-within-a-company setting, where small teams move fast and ship pragmatically.
- You have built AI agents or skills to improve internal operations.

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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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Compensation

$198K – $235K • Offers Equity