Engineering Manager (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 know the best teams bring different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. If you're excited about a role and believe your skills and experiences align meaningfully with it, we encourage you to apply.

The Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team to help shape the systems that power how millions of users connect, subscribe, and engage with our products. You’ll lead a talented group of engineers focused on building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure systems that power our self-serve and enterprise customers. As a people-centered leader, you’ll ensure your team executes with excellence while fostering collaboration across Product, Design, QA, and other cross-functional partners to deliver a smooth, compliant, and efficient experience.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop a team of engineers through clear direction, consistent feedback, and a focus on accountability and results.
• Take full ownership of your team’s outcomes, ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and high-quality solutions that support the company’s growth and long-term goals.
• Support engineers’ career growth by providing mentorship, identifying development opportunities, and creating space for progression within the team.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and other cross-functional partners to align priorities, dependencies, and success measures, ensuring cohesive and impactful customer experiences.
• Translate business objectives into actionable plans, making sure the team understands both the “what” and the “why.”
• Maintain transparent communication on progress, risks, and trade-offs, proactively surfacing blockers and driving resolutions.
• Foster a culture of ownership, empowering engineers to take initiative and make informed decisions with accountability.
• Uphold high technical and quality standards, ensuring system reliability and data integrity across all processes you oversee.
• Continuously improve how the team operates, refining workflows, documentation, and release practices to increase efficiency and clarity.
• Lead with empathy and clarity, setting the tone for stability and confidence as priorities evolve.

Who You Are

• Experienced Engineering Manager with a proven record of driving teams toward meaningful, high-quality outcomes.
• Strong communicator who brings clarity to complex situations and ensures alignment across engineering, product, and business partners.
• Technically fluent - you understand architecture and development trade-offs, can challenge assumptions, and speak the same language as your engineers.
• Skilled at fostering ownership and accountability, helping engineers understand their impact and take initiative with confidence.
• Strategic thinker who can translate business goals into technical direction, ensuring your team builds scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Empathetic and inclusive leader who builds trust, encourages growth, and creates space for diverse perspectives.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment, making thoughtful decisions, and adapting to change with resilience.
• Collaborative partner who values transparency and constructive feedback as drivers of improvement.
• Passionate about building scalable systems and effective teams that support great customer experiences.

Bonus Points (Optional)

• Previous experience as an Individual Contributor or Technical Lead, providing a strong foundation for leading engineering teams.

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 compensation would be between xxK€ - xxK€.  Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed above.

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 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.