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.