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As a Principal Architect at Bitly, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape of our organization. Leveraging your top-notch engineering skills, you will lead the charge in defining and implementing the architectural vision at scale, ensuring alignment with business objectives. You'll be a facilitator, bringing together cross-functional teams to make collective decisions on technological direction. Communication is your thing, and you'll use it to foster an environment of knowledge-sharing and mentorship, helping our developers grow both technically and professionally. Your influence extends beyond code; you'll contribute to strategic decision-making, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide the team toward adopting best practices.

What You'll D

• Develop and drive the overarching architectural strategy, ensuring it aligns with the company's business objectives.
• Act as a key decision-maker in critical architectural choices and guide teams to implement features and functionality that are scalable and efficient.

• Facilitate collaboration among cross-functional teams, ensuring collective decision-making on architectural matters.
• Identify essential missing technical requirements during the planning and design phases of the SDLC.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other architects to identify and solve complex technical challenges.

• Cultivate an open communication culture, promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration within the engineering team.
• Mentor junior, mid-level, and senior developers, providing guidance on best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.

• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and emerging technologies, influencing decision-making based on the latest advancements.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new technologies to enhance the company's technical capabilities.
• Oversee a technical area by providing guidance and alignment in a project's Design and Planning phases.
• Contributes to Implementation phases of project(s) that are critical for the business and highly complex.
• Conduct regular code reviews and architectural assessments to maintain architectural integrity.
• Documents how services, files, and technologies work together.
• Defines, implements, documents, and enforces best practices to uphold high code quality and system reliability standards.

Who You Are

General

• Proven experience designing and implementing solutions for high-scale environments serving billions of customers.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions based on industry best practices.
• Familiarity with challenges related to scalability, performance optimization, and distributed systems architecture.
• Proactively stays informed about industry trends, embraces innovative solutions to address challenges, and takes the lead in evaluating and adopting cutting-edge technologies to enhance the company's technical capabilities.
• Passion for mentorship and fostering the professional growth of team members.
• Ability to lead by example, inspiring others through technical excellence and collaborative leadership.
• Proficiency in our main programming languages is essential. For the backend, this means expertise in Golang and Javascript/Typescript, and for the frontend, it is necessary to know Javascript/Typescript with React as our main framework. Experience with other modern languages is also beneficial, as long as there is a willingness to focus on our primary languages.

For Backend Architects

• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including but not limited to the key services we leverage.
• Proficiency in designing, deploying, and managing applications in AWS/GCP cloud environments.
• Knowledge of best security, scalability, and cost optimization practices on the AWS/GCP platform.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Production experience running services such as load balancers, relational databases, messaging systems, and container-orchestration systems