Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

Bitly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help us solve some of our most challenging problems. You’ll exercise your exceptional drive, experience and curiosity as the lead engineer of a multidisciplinary product team tasked with conversion, Payment- and Authentication-related services in our best-in-class QR Code point solution, QR Code Generator Pro. Ensuring a smooth, secure experience for our users and directly establishing Bitly as a high-trust business partner, you’ll help us grow the global cache of both QRCG Pro and Bitly as the go-to QR code linking partner for SMBs.

The ideal candidate will help us set a new standard of excellence for fault-free transactions and a seamless payment experience for the millions of customers we serve daily. Join our fantastic team in improving a scalable payment experience that can serve our customer's current and future needs!

Your Challenge

‐ Lead a team of engineers to build and improve impactful features, especially related to payment/checkout and identity management. These might include:

‐ Set the bar through pairing, code reviews, supportive feedback and guidance.

‐ Coordinate with Product and other peers to ensure the right engineering work is invested in while we grow our platform.

‐ Set and drive a culture that values structured code reviews and deploying frequently.

‐ Build the new monetization and product-packaging options and flows.

‐ Help mitigate payment risk and fraud.

‐ Utilize our tech stack

Your Skills

‐ Technical leadership on teams of 5 or more engineers.

‐ Front-and-back-end work designing, implementing, and maintaining payment processing applications and microservices using many of the frameworks and tools in our stack.

‐ Unit-, E2E-, integration- and contract-testing.

‐ Authentication and Authorization protocols and standards.

‐ Running a service 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, cloud-native technology landscape.

‐ Facilitating 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.

‐ Good communication skills and the ability to pass on your knowledge.

Nice to have:

‐ Terraform or similar infrastructure as code software tools.

‐ Security and/or Compliance-as-Code.

‐ Interacting and working with Stripe.

‐ OAuth2 and OpenID-Connect knowledge.

‐ Experience in running containerised microservices-based applications in the cloud.

EU Employee Benefits

‐ Competitive Salary + Stock Options

‐ 30 days paid vacation + one week company vacation in summer

‐ Flexibility: remote-first (Bielefeld and Berlin offices available) & flexible working hours

‐ High standard equipment (laptop. Monitors, keyboards ..)

‐ Work from home stipend

‐ Wifi / Internet & Cell Phone Stipend

‐ Personal Development Budget

‐ Fitness Membership at Urban Sports Club

‐ Regular onsite & offsite team events

‐ Trust based leadership

‐ Strong feedback culture

‐ Employee focused onboarding experience

‐ Company sponsored volunteering opportunities (when it is safe to do so)

Closing

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Germany on a full-time basis and located in Germany.

The annual cash compensation range for this position is below. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed.

Pay Range

€90.000—€120.000 EUR

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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

‐ Champion Diversity, Equity & 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 beliefs and goals, 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. Above and beyond discrimination/harassment based on “protected categories,” Bitly also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Bitly.