Compensation: $132k – $181k
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!
The Role
Bitly is looking for a Sr. Back End Engineer to develop, improve and expand the services that power our payments infrastructure across all Bitly products. You’ll join the Payments team within the Growth part of the organization, where we own the end to end subscription revenue pipeline. Your work will be highly visible across Engineering, Product and Design, and GTM teams as we continue to scale globally.
You will work closely with the engineering and product teams aligned within Growth. Our teams work primarily in Go, TypeScript and React. You will report to and collaborate with the Engineering Manager assigned to your team.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and own high‑throughput Go services that manage subscription lifecycle, payment orchestration, and financial data pipelines.
- Integrate and maintain connections with external billing platforms, ensuring accuracy, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
- Continuously collaborate with a diverse organization of value-driven individuals to understand the goals, needs, and priorities of our users.
- Turn your understanding of our systems into thoughtful, well-tested and scalable solutions easily managed by your fellow engineers.
- Advance our payment platform by contributing to modernization initiatives and shaping the technical roadmap for payments.
- Own reliability & performance of payment services, employing automated testing, monitoring, and alerting to meet stringent SLAs.
- Provide mentorship and support to Mid-level Engineers on your team to help them grow in technical competence, ensure code quality for owned services, and remove blockers for the team.
Who You Are
- You have extensive experience in back‑end engineering and designing and scaling distributed systems in production.
- You have expert-level proficiency in Golang, with a strong track record of shipping high-throughput APIs and writing understandable, testable, and efficient code.
- You have hands-on experience integrating and operating Zuora (REST APIs, product catalog, invoice & tax logic) and Stripe (Payments/Connect, webhooks, retries, refunds).
- You are curious about the potential of AI and have hands-on experience exploring or integrating AI-powered tools or workflows to improve product quality, automation, or developer productivity.
- You have experience working in cloud-native environments and an understanding of how cloud platforms and modern infrastructure support scalable, reliable systems..
- You are comfortable collaborating in an agile, experiment‑driven environment and communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- You are passionate in writing clean, observable, and well‑tested code; strong advocate for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
- You are familiar with relevant tools and technologies and have the drive to stay up-to-date with ongoing changes and advancements.
- You take the initiative in addressing issues or seeking support from fellow team members.
- You have experience with and are a proponent of automated testing.
- You have experience using a flavor of version control — we use git and Github to collaborate and manage pull requests.
Bonus Points (Optional)
- You have experience with python.
- You led or participated in migrations from legacy billing systems.
- You have experience with data warehousing & analytics (BigQuery, dbt, Looker) to support finance and growth reporting.
- You have enthusiasm for developer productivity, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
US Employee Benefits
Your benefits start on Day 1!
Health & Wellbeing
- Inclusive health, dental, and vision plans built to support diverse lifestyles
- Employer contribution to HSA plans
- Generous paid parental leave
- Enhanced support for reproductive health, family planning, and new parents
- Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential counseling services
- Comprehensive well-being benefits including reimbursement program
- Flexible PTO policy and company breaks - At Bitly, we believe rest and relaxation are essential for rejuvenating the creative spirit that sets us apart
Inclusion & Belonging
- Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups
- Global DEI programming
- Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together
Financial
- 401k with up to 4% employer match, access to financial professionals to offer our employees the opportunity to plan for a strong financial future well beyond their working years
- Company Stock Options
- Life, Short-term Disability and Long-term Disability options
- Flexible workspace support provided, including home office, cell phone and WiFi service reimbursement
- Coworking reimbursement for eligible employees
- Voluntary Benefits: Pet Insurance, LegalShield, IDShield, Hospitalization, and Accident coverages
- Reimbursement for professional development
Eligibility & Closing
US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
*** 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 York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington ***
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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$132,145—$181,699 USD
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.