Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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

Germany - Remote

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!

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:

• PHP (Lavarel, Yii), NodeJS, Golang > migrating to Golang
• AWS-native: S3, EC2, RDS, Cloud Watch, Lambda, Cognito
• Git Hub + Git Hub 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.
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