Senior Software Engineer, Payment and Monetization (m/f/d)

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!

Your Role

Bitly is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to contribute to the development, enhancement, and maintenance of our payment services and the whole monetization area. This role is critical to ensuring a secure and smooth payment experience for Bitly's customers and establishing Bitly as a reliable business partner. The ideal candidate will focus on delivering fault-tolerant transactions and seamless payment experiences for millions of daily customers. This position involves improving a scalable payment system that meets both present and future customer needs.

Your Challenge

• Build and iterate on features related to the payment/checkout experience. This includes the entire transactional lifecycle of a customer:

• Real-time payment processing

• Payment abstraction of servicing Payment Service Providers (PSP)

• Integration of new payment methods and providers

• Ensuring the payment workflow is transparent and observable for both customers and the customer support team

• Contribute to the development of new monetization and product-packaging options

• Help mitigate payment risk and fraud

• Engage in pairing and code reviews and provide supportive feedback to peers.

• Participate in a culture that emphasizes structured code reviews and frequent deployments.

Your Skills

• Professional experience in front-end and back-end development, including designing, implementing, and maintaining payment processing applications and microservices, mostly leveraging Go and React and their respective ecosystem.

• Proficiency in unit, end-to-end (E2E), integration, and contract testing.

• Experience in operating a service environment that includes decoupled services, high loads, and large datasets.

• Direct experience interacting and working with Stripe.

• Current and in-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD within a modern technology environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools.

• Experience with Github and Github Actions

• Understanding and experience with container-based deployment and eco systems

• Experience with PHP

• Experience with AWS and its services (ECS, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Kinesis etc.)

• Experience with Security and/or Compliance-as-Code.

• Experience in running containerized, microservices-based applications in the cloud.

Your Profile

• Taking a proactive approach to experimenting with new frameworks, technologies, and workflows, while sharing insights and knowledge with the team.

• Being open to enhancing older parts of our codebase and transitioning them to a newer technology stack.

• Understanding application security models, particularly the principle of least privilege.

• Demonstrating excellent communication skills and the ability to mentor and support other engineers in their professional growth.

• Committing to thorough code reviews that emphasize best practices, business rules, performance, security, and the overall impact on other projects, ensuring that communication remains respectful and constructive.

• An open-minded approach to indicate a willingness to consider different perspectives and ideas.

• A willingness to embrace new ideas, emphasizing adaptability and a forward-thinking mindset.

What Bitly offers on Day 1!

• Competitive Salary + Stock Options

• 30 days paid vacation

• Flexible working location

• Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups

• Global DEI programming

• Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together

Eligibility & Closing

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

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: €67.860 EUR - €93.000 EUR

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

• 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.