Software Engineer II

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.

Your Role at Impact:

As a Software Engineer, your focus will be on delivering stories for the squad, monitoring production environments and managing deployments to production. This role assumes that you are able to utilize the latest features of a language and can effectively select and implement the right design pattern to solve problems independently. You will have experience implementing integration tests, be comfortable working with CI and confidently reuse existing frameworks. At this level you are expected to have an understanding of the business requirements of all stories in the sprint, implement stories on existing cloud infrastructure and services and independently implement agreed design to spec. You should feel comfortable escalating appropriately. You are also expected to help team members with implementation.

What You'll Do:

• Develop, test and maintain software for the Platform
• Build meaningful unit, functional and integration level tests for the software built
• 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
• Design software solutions

What You Have:

• Initiative
• Adaptability
• Personal Development
• Being a team player
• Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Opensource contributions are beneficial
• Experience working with Java, Spring and related Technologies
• 6+ 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
• 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
• Primary caregiver leave
• Training & Development
  • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund
  • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
  • Group scheme for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units
  • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Technology stipend

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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