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Senior Server Engineer II

Join Strava as a Senior Engineer II to enhance the Challenges product and build sponsored experiences for active users.

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Build new and creative products
  • Enhance the Challenges product
  • Lead conversations between product, design, and business partners
  • Plan and coordinate complex projects
  • Provide technical support as part of an on-call rotation

Must have

  • Experience building and operating complex backend systems
  • Experience in an operations-heavy environment
  • Experience planning and coordinating large cross-functional projects

Nice to have

  • Experience with React, Android, or iOS
  • Experience in a startup-within-a-company setting
  • Experience building AI agents or skills

Practical constraints

  • More than half of your time on-site in San Francisco office

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Server Engineer II at Strava focuses on enhancing the Challenges feature and developing new sponsored products that engage both users and business partners. The position requires expertise in building and managing complex backend systems, along with strong project coordination skills to navigate cross-functional collaborations. Ideal candidates are experienced engineers who thrive in dynamic environments and are comfortable mentoring others. Strava's team emphasizes a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Strava's careers page November 14, 2026.
  • Backend appears in 1% of 520 comparable senior backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Server Engineer II role remote?
It's hybrid — Strava expects some on-site time in San Francisco, California, United States.
Where is the role based?
Strava is hiring for this position in San Francisco, California, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Backend.
What seniority level is this role?
Strava targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Server Engineer II role at Strava.

From the original posting

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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