Senior Software Engineer

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Cape Town, Western Cape
Senior level
Marketing Tech • Software
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will build and enhance AI-focused compliance tools, integrating existing solutions and creating new APIs and batch jobs. Responsibilities include planning, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software, collaborating with the team, and maintaining documentation. Strong understanding of cloud services and multiple programming languages is essential.
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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

Your primary focus will be to help build and design our AI focus regulated compliance tools and combine that with our existing compliance tools. This will include, creating APIs, Pub/Sub using Kafka, batch jobs, spring boot, spring AI, LLMs and Vector stores mostly focused around Vertex AI but not exclusively.

You will be delivering software 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, identify the best approach for using gen AI and tools around it, 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.

What You'll Do:

  • Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the departments 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
  • Gen AI experience using and implementing software using AI
  • 8+ years experience: Java 8 +, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools (Hibernate, JPA), Spring boot, Spring AI, HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM & Garbage collection, 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, Vector Stores
  • TDD experience
  • Continuous intergration / 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 Regulated Compliance 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 Momentum for provident fund
  • 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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Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: Santa Barbara, CA
1,247 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

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