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.
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 a reimbursement program,
- Flexible PTO policy.
Inclusion & Belonging
- Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups
- Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together.
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.
- 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.
Eligibility
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Bitly is a link management platform that helps people, brands and businesses make their content connect and ignite action with every link. Personalize, share and track your content links, while capturing data and insights with every click.
