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Sr. Backend Engineer - CP

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Bitly is the world’s leading Connections Platform, empowering businesses to create memorable connections with their customers at every physical and digital touchpoint. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, millions of people around the world rely on Bitly for custom short links, QR Codes, and landing pages that are easy to create, share, and manage. With tools to track and optimize every interaction, we help businesses understand what drives the greatest impact.

As we continue to redefine how brands interact with customers, we're looking for passionate individuals eager to drive innovation and shape the future of engagement. Join us in turning every click, tap, and scan into a powerful catalyst for connections.

We embrace diversity in experience and background as a vital strength. If you’re passionate and eager to make an impact, we invite you to apply—even if you don’t meet all the requirements. Different perspectives lead to the best ideas, and we’d love to hear yours!

 

The Role


We’re looking for a Sr. Back End Engineer to join our team and help design, build, and scale the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work on high-throughput services, collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our backend platform. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, mentoring others, and building reliable, scalable systems that have a real impact.

You’ll be part of an agile engineering team, collaborating with product, design, and other engineers across the organization. Our backend stack primarily uses Go, and we value clean architecture, automation, and continuous learning.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services using Go or other backend languages.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to understand user and business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Support the Marketing department by contributing to the infrastructure and features behind our websites and digital campaigns.
  • Build integrations with external systems and APIs, ensuring resilience, observability, and performance.
  • Improve system reliability and operational efficiency through automation, monitoring, and proactive maintenance.
  • Lead and contribute to architecture and technical design discussions.
  • Ensure code quality and best practices through code reviews, testing, and documentation.
  • Mentor and support mid-level engineers, helping them grow in technical skills and ownership.
  • Drive modernization initiatives and contribute to shaping our backend technical roadmap.

Who You Are

  • You have extensive experience in back‑end engineering and designing and scaling distributed systems in production.
  • You have expert-level proficiency in Golang (or similar languages like Python, C# or Node.js), with a strong track record of shipping high-throughput APIs and writing understandable, testable, and efficient code.
  • You deeply understand modern cloud-native environments and infrastructure at scale (e.g. containers, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems).
  • You have experience working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including non-technical teams such as Marketing, to help them achieve business outcomes.
  • You are curious about the potential of AI and have hands-on experience exploring or integrating AI-powered tools or workflows to improve product quality, automation, or developer productivity.
  • You are comfortable collaborating in an agile, experiment‑driven environment and communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  • You are passionate in writing clean, observable, and well‑tested code; strong advocate for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
  • You take initiative to solve problems, propose improvements, and remove team blockers.
  • You’re curious about new technologies and continuously seek ways to improve systems and developer workflows.
  • You have experience with and are a proponent of automated testing.
  • You have experience using a flavor of version control — we use git and Github to collaborate and manage pull requests.

Bonus Points (Optional)

  • Experience supporting marketing websites, A/B testing infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with web performance optimization and SEO best practices.
  • Experience with data pipelines or analytics infrastructure (e.g. BigQuery, Looker).
  • Exposure to AI/ML tooling or developer productivity tools.
  • Proven experience in system modernization and large-scale system enhancements.

    Closing

    US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
     
    *** Must live in or be willing to relocate to one of the following states to be eligible for hire: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey,  North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington ***
     
    If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here. (https://bitly.is/CPRACandidates)

Compensation

The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications as well as other business and organizational needs.

Base Salary Range

$132,145 - $181,699 USD

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process for all applicants. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process, please complete and submit the Bitly Job Applicant & Candidate Accommodation Request. All information provided will be confidential and used solely to facilitate your request. Your accommodation request will not affect your candidacy or influence the hiring decision in any way. After submitting your request, a Human Resources team member will contact you to discuss your request and the next steps.

Our Values

  • Be a Catalyst. As an innovative technology company, we build our products to be a catalyst for connection and encourage our team to be catalysts for meaningful impact both at work and in the world
  • Take Ownership. In our highly collaborative culture, Individual accountability is critical. We depend on each other to solve our customers' most challenging problems and celebrate the wins together
  • Inclusion. Our product connects people of all backgrounds and abilities. And our company is built on the belief that our differences make us better and that everyone deserves the opportunity in which to thrive
  • Show Integrity. We don’t cut corners. We don’t look for the easy way out. We approach every day with a shared mindset - let’s do the right thing, even if it’s the harder thing
  • Have Fun. Whether your time is here is as short as a Bitly link or as long as the links your grandma sends you, we want your experience at Bitly to be fun and memorable. We hope the connections you make here last a lifetime
In keeping with our values and commitment to inclusion, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. We’re committed to building a respectful, inclusive environment—free from harassment and discrimination—while actively addressing systemic barriers to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to grow, contribute, and succeed.

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