Join Strava as a Senior Engineer II to enhance the Challenges product and build sponsored experiences for active users.
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Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
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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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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