Front End Engineer - Content
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 Front End 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
What You Bring:
- Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
- 4+ years Software Development
- Initiative
- Adaptability
- Personal Development
- Being a team player
- OpenSource contributions are beneficial
- Experience working with Java, Spring and related Technologies are beneficial
- 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
- Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA
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.
- 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 our 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.
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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