As a Sr. Backend Engineer, you'll design and scale backend systems at Bitly, utilizing your proficiency in Go and collaborating with teams to drive innovation and improve services.
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 a Sr. Back End Engineer to join our team and help design, build, and scale the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work on high-throughput services, collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our backend platform. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, mentoring others, and building reliable, scalable systems that have a real impact.
You’ll be part of an agile engineering team, collaborating with product, design, and other engineers across the organization. Our backend stack primarily uses Go, and we value clean architecture, automation, and continuous learning.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services using Go or other backend languages.
- Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to understand user and business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Support the Marketing department by contributing to the infrastructure and features behind our websites and digital campaigns.
- Build integrations with external systems and APIs, ensuring resilience, observability, and performance.
- Improve system reliability and operational efficiency through automation, monitoring, and proactive maintenance.
- Lead and contribute to architecture and technical design discussions.
- Ensure code quality and best practices through code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Mentor and support mid-level engineers, helping them grow in technical skills and ownership.
- Drive modernization initiatives and contribute to shaping our backend technical roadmap.
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 (or similar languages like Python, C# or Node.js), with a strong track record of shipping high-throughput APIs and writing understandable, testable, and efficient code.
- You deeply understand modern cloud-native environments and infrastructure at scale (e.g. containers, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems).
- You have experience working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including non-technical teams such as Marketing, to help them achieve business outcomes.
- 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 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 take initiative to solve problems, propose improvements, and remove team blockers.
- You’re curious about new technologies and continuously seek ways to improve systems and developer workflows.
- 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)
- Experience supporting marketing websites, A/B testing infrastructure.
- Familiarity with web performance optimization and SEO best practices.
- Experience with data pipelines or analytics infrastructure (e.g. BigQuery, Looker).
- Exposure to AI/ML tooling or developer productivity tools.
- Proven experience in system modernization and large-scale system enhancements.
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.
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.
Inclusion & Belonging
- Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups.
- Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together.
Eligibility & Closing
US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Bitly does not sponsor or support any immigration processing.
*** 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 ***
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here. (https://bitly.is/CPRACandidates)
As part of our hiring process, we conduct routine measures to verify the authenticity of candidate applications and credentials. These steps help us maintain a fair, secure, and high-quality recruitment experience for all applicants.
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.
- 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.
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.
Top Skills
C#
Git
Git
Go
Node.js
Python
Similar Jobs
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
The Business Development Manager will oversee strategic partnerships, drive growth in the Northeast and Central regions, manage sales pipelines, and enhance product understanding among team members and clients.
Top Skills:
Network Video Management SoftwareVideo Analytics
Digital Media • Gaming • Information Technology • Software • Sports • Esports • Big Data Analytics
As a VIP Host, you'll manage relationships with DraftKings' top players, executing engagement strategies and fostering loyalty through events, communications, and feedback processes.
Cloud • Healthtech • Professional Services • Software • Pharmaceutical
The Senior Manager, Content Strategy will develop and execute a comprehensive content strategy, manage content creation, and collaborate across teams to enhance brand storytelling and engagement.
Top Skills:
Content StrategyDigital MarketingSeo
What you need to know about the Boston Tech Scene
Boston is a powerhouse for technology innovation thanks to world-class research universities like MIT and Harvard and a robust pipeline of venture capital investment. Host to the first telephone call and one of the first general-purpose computers ever put into use, Boston is now a hub for biotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence — though it’s also home to several B2B software giants. So it’s no surprise that the city consistently ranks among the greatest startup ecosystems in the world.
Key Facts About Boston Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 269,000; 9.4% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toast, Klaviyo, HubSpot, DraftKings
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, software, aerospace
- Funding Landscape: $15.7 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Summit Partners, Volition Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, MassVentures, Highland Capital Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: MIT, Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Boston University, Northeastern University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, National Bureau of Economic Research, Broad Institute, Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
