Senior Software Engineer

Our Company:

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com .

Your Role at Impact.com

As a Senior Software Engineer III, your focus will be on delivering epics for the squad through planning, designing, implementing, testing and deploying. You will be self sufficient with an understanding of ancillary services and infrastructure.

This role assumes that you are able to define the correct cloud services to use, implement new libraries and identify and solve problems independently.

You will have experience across multiple languages with practical experience in common architectural patterns, implementing blackbox and whitebox testing and complex integration testing frameworks.

At this level you are expected to deliver independently as well as unblock and assist team members with delivery. You should feel comfortable escalating and communicating effectively.

You will also be working closely with the SSO to prioritize, and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design and implementation.

What You'll Do:

Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives

Develop code both independently and while pair programming

Write and maintain design, user and test documentation

Become familiar with technologies used on the squad

Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs

Build customer and non customer facing code.

Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables

Create SQL for Tech Updates and ensure this is ready for review

Keeps technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialization, incorporating these improvements where applicable

Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications

Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner

Mentor and give guidance to less senior staff to grow careers

Perform code reviews

Approve pull requests

Perform point releases

Maintain build- and stage stability

Research and prototype new technologies

Influence system wide architecture

Evolve architecture

Regularly review peer contributions and take part in constructive retrospectives to increase efficiency

Actively contribute to and maintain technical documentation

Follow technology trends and incorporate new promising technology as required to keep with the times

Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues

Contribute to creative solutions that help make the development process more efficient - elevated ownership of application stability

What You Have:

Initiative

Adaptability

Being a team player

Personal Development

Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience.

Opensource contributions are beneficial

8+ years experience: Java 8 +, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools (Hibernate, JPA), Spring MVC, HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM &Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, Cloud Computing, Load balancing

Experience working with Java, Spring and related Technologies

8+ years Software Development

Agile / Iterative processes. Kanban / Scrum

Knowledge of Relational Databases, Table design, SQL

TDD experience

Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, integrations

Experience working with Large Scale processing

Exposure and experience in any Google Cloud technology highly desired

Experience in monitoring, alerting and production support

Good understanding of JVM and Garbage Collection

Knowledge of Digital Marketing is a big plus

Exposure to front end technologies

Experience Mentoring / Training teams

Experience in taking ownership off larger pieces of work

Proven track record of influencing architecture and inter-disciplinary dependencies

Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

Hybrid, Casual work environment

Responsible PTO policy

Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both

Training & Development

Learning the advanced partnership automation products

Medical Aid and Provident Fund

Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid

Group scheme with 10x Funds

Restricted Stock Units

3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval

Internet Allowance

Fitness club fee reimbursements

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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