Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (m/f/d)

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 know the best teams bring different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. If you're excited about a role and believe your skills and experiences align meaningfully with it, we encourage you to apply.

At Bitly, we believe in the power of the link or scan - to start a conversation, build a relationship or grow a business. Our mission is to turn every interaction into a catalyst for connections. It’s what motivates us to help people share, promote and engage everywhere on the Internet. We do this by being relentlessly product-focused, fostering the free-flowing exchange of ideas, and inspiring people around the world to dream up new ways of using Bitly.

The Position

Come help design, build and reimagine our industry-leading QR code solutions and experiences. As our newest Sr. Software Engineer, Fullstack, you’ll join an international and cross-functional team of engineering, product, data and support experts to help us revitalize the ways that people across the world are connected through QR codes.

The ideal candidate will bring a mix of experience in front-end, back-end, API and/or platform engineering experience in cloud-native applications and a hunger for discovering and solving challenging, novel, high-scale problems. Join our team in evolving new wonders for our customers!

Your Challenge

As a Sr. Software Engineer, Fullstack, you will:

• Implement and refine the architecture of our connection-empowering applications.
• Design and develop front-end and back-end features for our applications.
• Contribute to cross-organizational or cross-product efforts that drive growth for Bitly.
• Empower yourself and your peers through pairing, code reviews, and supportive feedback.
• Participate in a culture that values structured code reviews and deploying frequently.
• Create and champion initiatives to improve the company’s engineering setup and participation in an internal open source model with international colleagues.

Our stack: 

• TypeScript/JavaScript, Vue.js, Nuxt.JS, Angular > migrating to React + Next.JS.
• PHP (Lavarel, Yii), NodeJS, Golang > migrating to Golang.
• AWS-native: S3, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, Cognito.
• GitHub + GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker.
• … plus various 3rd party integrations.

Your Skills

A good candidate for this role will have professional experience in:

• Developing cloud-native distributed systems and web applications using many of the frameworks and tools in our stack.
• Knowledge about the AWS ecosystem: S3, EC2, RDS, SSM, Lambda, Cognito, Bedrock.
• Unit-, E2E-, integration- and contract-testing.
• API communication and building.
• Running an environment with decoupled services under high load with large data sets.
• Up-to-date, in-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD in a modern technology landscape.
• Remote-native international teams work in English.
• Good communication skills and the ability to pass on your knowledge.

A candidate will additionally standout by demonstrating:

• A culture to experiment, evaluate, and introduce other team members to new frameworks, technologies, and workflows.
• Knowledge of application security models, the principle of least privilege, etc.
• Strong code reviews, ensuring best practices and business rules, performance, security, impact on other features or projects, and always with respectful and constructive communication.
• Experience in Tailwind, broader collections of our existing stack.
• Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Building or supporting Identity and Access Management solutions.

What Bitly offers on Day 1!

Health & Wellbeing 

• Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential counseling services.
• Comprehensive well-being benefits including reimbursement program.
• 30 days Paid Vacation.

Financial 

• Stock Options,
• Flexible workspace support provided, including cell phone, and WiFi service reimbursement.
• Coworking reimbursement for eligible employees.
• Reimbursement for professional development.

Inclusion & Belonging

• Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together.

Eligibility & Closing

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Germany on a full-time basis and located in Germany.

Eligibility

• US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Bitly does not sponsor or support any immigration processing.
• 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 Jersey, New York,  North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
• If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here. (https://bitly.is/CPRACandidates).

How We Hire

We believe hiring should be transparent and approachable. Here’s what you can expect in our process:

• Apply: Submit your application online.
• Recruiter screen: A conversation to learn more about you and share what it’s like to work here.
• Interviews & assessments: Meet with team members through a mix of conversations and exercises. For some roles, this may include a take-home technical challenge (like a coding task or marketing presentation), which you’ll then walk through live with the team. Our interviews focus on technical skills, our core competencies, and our values, because success at Bitly is about more than what you know; it’s about how you grow and work with others.
• Offer: If it’s a match, we’ll work together on next steps

As part of our hiring process, we conduct routine measures to verify the authenticity of candidate applications and credentials. These steps help us maintain a fair, secure, and high-quality recruitment experience for all applicants.

Accessibility

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.
  
  
• Champion 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.