Software Engineer

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Cape Town, Western Cape
In-Office
Software
The Role
About impact.com

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.

Your Role at impact.com:

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 Bring:
  • 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 the following:
    • Frontend Development including React, Typescript, Vue and related Technologies
    • Backend Development including Java, Spring and related Technologies
  • 4+ 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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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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