Senior Engineer (Backend Platform - NodeJS, Data Integrations)

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Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Software
The Role
Design, build, and maintain scalable Node.js/TypeScript data integrations and ETL pipelines. Implement crawlers and API consumers, optimize throughput and resiliency, improve observability, participate in on-call rotation, lead code reviews and mentor engineers to ensure data quality and system reliability.
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The Company: 

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Why Join Us?

We value engineers who treat code as a craft. You’ll have the autonomy to choose the right tools for the job, the environment of equality and open collaboration, the support to grow professionally, and plenty of tasks to challenge yourself.

Your Role at impact.com:

We are looking for a Senior Node.js Engineer who doesn't just write code but actually enjoys the craft of programming. We need a proactive problem-solver - someone who treats failing code as a captivating puzzle to be solved and fixed before it impacts the user experience.

Our core product relies on a sophisticated ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) engine that pulls data from a dizzying array of external sources.

If you can find fun in reverse-engineering a complex API, building a crawler that can dance around obstacles, or optimizing the pipeline so that it can handle massive volumes you’ll fit right in.


What You'll Do:

  • Architect & Build: Develop robust, scalable integrations using Node.js and TypeScript.
  • The ETL Engine: Maintain and optimize the core of the ETL engine to ensure resiliency, high throughput and data integrity.
  • Data Scavenging: Design and implement crawlers and API consumers that interface with diverse external systems.
  • Dev On-Call: Participate in a shared on-call rotation. You’ll monitor system health, respond to alerts, and perform "surgery" on production issues when things go sideways.
  • Quality First: Always looking for ways to improve and ensure the quality of our data.
  • Mentorship: Lead by example in code reviews and architectural discussions, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Who You Are:

  • Pro-active: You don’t wait for a spec to be 100% perfect if you see a way to make the system better today.
  • Tech Obsessed: You actually care about the stack. You follow the latest releases, you have opinions on tools, and you’re always looking for a more efficient way of working.
  • Resilient: You understand that in the world of third-party integrations, things are unpredictable and unreliable. You enjoy the challenge of building "self-healing" systems.

What You Bring:

  • Language Mastery: Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Data Engineering: Experience building data-processing/streaming processes, handling large datasets, and managing data schema evolution.
  • Observability: Good understanding of OpenTelemetry, all types of observability signals and experience working with them.
  • Cloud Native: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (GKE, KMS, Google Cloud Storage, Secret Manager).
  • Testing Rigor: A "test-first" mindset with experience in frameworks like Jest, Vitest and Playwright.
  • Collaboration: Good understanding of GitHub workflows (PRs, Actions, Issues)

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

  • Strong extended health benefits: Health & Prescription coverage, vision and dental care, virtual health care, out-of-country medical coverage
    • Insurance coverage (life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and more)
    • Health Care Spending Account
    • Two different Employee Assistance Programs
  • Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
  • Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
  • A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of your total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
  • Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
  • Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
  • Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses. 

Note: Benefits may vary by location and are subject to local regulations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.



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The Company
HQ: Santa Barbara, CA
824 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Impact is transforming the way enterprises manage and optimize all types of partnerships. Our Partnership Cloud™ is an integrated end-to-end solution for managing an enterprise’s partnerships across the entire partner life cycle to activate rapid growth through the emerging Partnership Economy™. Impact was founded in 2008 by a team of Internet marketing and technology experts who previously founded Commission Junction, Savings.com and LeadPoint. From the beginning, we disrupted the industry by moving away from the traditional affiliate network model and instead introducing a SaaS technology platform for performance marketing professionals to better grow and manage all their revenue generating partnerships.

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