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# Senior Server Engineer II

- **Company:** Strava
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $198,000 - $235,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ReactJS, Backend, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b93ab61c30c4a169

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.