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Staff Backend Engineer - CP

Bitly is the leading Connections Platform helping businesses create and measure meaningful interactions across links, QR codes, and landing pages. The company is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design, modernize, and expand backend services that power Bitly’s products, mentor engineering teams, and influence platform architecture and technical direction.

Skills

  • Proven backend service design and architecture experience
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (Golang, Python, Java, C#, or Node.js)
  • Experience with databases and caching (MySQL, SQL, Memcached)
  • Experience with messaging systems (NSQ or similar)
  • Strong automated testing and TDD practices
  • Familiarity with Git and GitHub pull request workflows
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
  • Experience evaluating or using AI developer tools (Copilot, Codex, Cursor)

Responsibilities

  • Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers to elevate technical quality, scalability, and delivery.
  • Advocate and influence engineering solutions aligned to product strategy and measurable business outcomes.
  • Design, create, manage, and improve backend services using tools such as Go, NSQ, MySQL, and Memcached.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to evolve platform architecture and align distributed teams on scalable system design.
  • Make high-impact architectural decisions and create frameworks that enable rapid development and long-term maintainability.
  • Leverage AI-powered developer tools to improve productivity, code quality, and testing practices.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Advanced degree is a plus but not required

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision plans with employer contributions
  • Employer contributions to HSA plans
  • Generous paid parental leave and family planning support
  • Comprehensive mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible PTO policy and company breaks
  • 401(k) with up to 4% employer match
  • Company stock options
  • Home office, cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursement; coworking reimbursement
  • Voluntary benefits (pet insurance, legal/ID protection, hospitalization, accident)
  • Reimbursement for professional development
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Our mission is to turn every link 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...

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