Our Company:
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.
If you have a desire to work in an organisation that is:
Passionate about its people
Focused on delivering the very best tech to our customers
Offering the flexibility to work how and where you are most successful
Obsessed with our customer’s success
The leading SaaS platform to automate partnerships - affiliate, influencer, technology partners, and more!
Entrepreneurial in spirit with a culture that rewards collaboration and curiosity
Obsessed with making a difference in business and to the wider community
Impact is the global leader in Partnership Automation, working with innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi’s, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage their online affiliate, influencer, brand to brand, and content partnerships. The Impact Partnership Cloud covers the full life partnership lifecycle including onboarding, tracking ads and paying partners, recruiting for new partners, data and marketing intelligence, and protection from fraud. Founded in 2008, Impact has grown to over 500 employees and ten offices across Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia so there is plenty of opportunity for growth and advancement.
Your Role at Impact:
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.
This position is remote as long as you reside anywhere in South Africa.
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
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 Have:
Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
Open Source contributions are beneficial
Experience working with Node.js, Express, Jest and related Technologies
Experience with APIs and web scraping
6+ 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
Benefits/Perks:
Unlimited 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
Stock Options
4-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
Internet Allowance
Flexible work hours
Casual work environment
Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or non-binary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
