Job Description
Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
Location: Remote
At Bitly, we believe in the power of the link or scan – to start a conversation, build a relationship or grow a business. Our mission is to turn every interaction into a catalyst for connections. It’s what motivates us to help people share, promote and engage everywhere on the Internet. We do this by being relentlessly product-focused, fostering the free-flowing exchange of ideas, and inspiring people around the world to dream up new ways of using Bitly.
The Role
Bitly is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to develop, improve, and enrich our platform and user experience. You will be focused primarily on adding to and improving our feature set while contributing to ongoing efforts around codebase modernization. As a senior engineer, your role will also involve higher-level planning for quarterly commitments, systems designs, and breaking down projects into stories. You will work closely with the Product and Design teams to plan and build new features and solve real-world problems for our users.
What You’ll Do
- Lead technical planning for larger initiatives including an iteratively redesigning
- Create, manage, and improve our web application using a variety of technologies, including React and Typescript
- Create, manage, and improve back end services that accurately and efficiently provide clients with the data they need with a variety of tools and languages including, Go, NSQ, MySQL, Memcached and more.
- Draw from previous engineering at-scale experience to influence and steer improvements within our distributed engineering organization.
- Provide mentorship and support to Junior and Mid-level Engineers on your team to help them grow in technical competence, ensure code quality, and remove blockers.
- Actively engage in mentorship via code reviews, pair programming, architectural discussions, and general feedback to grow others on your team
- Help to set standards as we modernize our systems and user experiences
- Draw from previous engineering at-scale experience to influence and steer improvements within our distributed engineering organization
- 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
Who You Are
- You have a thorough understanding of systems and implementation
- You work effectively within a team and are effective at leading team discussions
- You display an understanding of fundamentals and are confident with a modern frameworks
- You can design and implement a solution in collaboration with product managers, designer, and other engineers
- You embrace feedback as an active participant in your own growth and take full ownership in your work
- You are comfortable giving feedback to other engineers
- You are familiar with relevant tools and technologies and have the drive to stay up-to-date with ongoing changes and advancements
- You’re familiar with common product and design life cycles and can effectively collaborate across disciplines (engineering, design, product)
- You clearly communicate technical concepts and ideas to other engineers and other parts of the organization
- You care about the quality of the code you write and strive to leave things better than you found them
- 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 our work
Bonus Points
- A passion for accessibility
- Experience with Test Driven Development
- Passion for Scrum and an interest in helping the team develop agreements and processes around that methodology
- Desire to have an active stake in building a long-term technical vision and direction for Bitly engineering