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

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.