Impact
Impact2mo ago

Senior Software Engineer

Cape Townsenior
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Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives Develop code both independently and while pair programming Write and maintain design,

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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.

As a Senior Software Engineer III, your focus will be on delivering epics 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, 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.

You will also be working closely with the SSO to prioritize, and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design and implementation.

Responsibilities

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8+ years experience: Java 8 +, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools (Hibernate, JPA), Spring MVC, HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM &Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, 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
  • 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
  • Knowledge of Digital Marketing 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

What We Offer

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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 10x Funds
Restricted Stock Units
3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
Internet Allowance
Fitness club fee reimbursements

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Cape Town
On-site at the office
Who can apply
Same as job location
Listed under
Worldwide

Listing Details

Posted
February 16, 2026
First seen
March 25, 2026
Last seen
May 1, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
36
Repost count
0
Trust Level
29%
Scored at
May 1, 2026

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impact.com is a leading global partnership management platform, enabling businesses to automate and scale all forms of partnerships, including affiliate, influencer, and B2B collaborations.

Employees
3k+
Founded
2008
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ImpactSenior Software Engineer