Staff Engineer, Bitly

• 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

Desirable

• Lead a team of engineers to build and improve impactful features, especially related to payment/checkout and identity management. These might include:
• Payment Processing in real-time
• Payment abstraction of servicing PSP
• New payment methods and providers
• Make the payment workflow transparent and observable for customers and our customer support team
• 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