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Software Engineer

Cape Town

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:

As a Software Engineer, your focus will be on delivering tasks for the squad, testing end to end, assisting QA with Staging environments and fixing broken builds.

This role assumes that you have an understanding of all aspects of a language and are able to apply previous solutions to new problems independently.

You should have practical experience in common design patterns, using unit tests for new code, and adding missing unit tests to legacy code with practical exposure to CI, and integration tests. You will also have practical exposure to at least 1 cloud platform where you should be confident using the console, and building basic apps in the cloud.

At this level you are expected to be confident reusing existing frameworks and work independently when completing tasks that you have been exposed to before.

During sprint planning and design sessions, you should feel comfortable asking "why" to understand the business reason behind your tasks.

You will also help with environment setup and onboarding of new members. 

What You'll Do:

  • Develop, test, and maintain software for the platform.
  • Write automation tests
  • Build meaningful unit, functional and integration level tests for the software built
  • 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 non customer facing code
  • Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Production Deployments  

What You Have:

  • Initiative
  • Adaptability
  • Personal Development
  • Being a team player
  • Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
  • Openssource contributions are beneficial
  • 3+ years Java, Spring and related Technologies experience
  • 2-3+  years experience in Software development
  • Agile / Iterative processes. Kanban / Scrum
  • Knowledge of Relational Databases, Table design, SQL
  • 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 reimbursementsTechnology 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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