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!
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!
- Competitive Salary + Stock Options
- 30 days paid vacation
- Flexible working location
- Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups
- Global DEI programming
- 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.
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
€68.800 - €81.151,20 EUR
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.
