Senior Software Engineer at Impact.com – Apply Now!

📍 Location: Cape Town (Hybrid)
🏢 Company: Impact.com
💼 Department: Engineering
⏱️ Type: Full-time

About Impact.com

Impact.com is the world’s leading partnership management platform, helping global brands streamline, automate, and grow every type of partnership — from influencers to enterprise affiliates. With world-class SaaS technology, the company empowers organisations to scale revenue efficiently using high-performance automation.

We work with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Uber, Shopify, Walmart, Lenovo, Fanatics, and L’Oréal. Our culture rewards curiosity, innovation, collaboration, and high ownership. If you want to join a global engineering team where your ideas matter and your impact is visible, this is your opportunity.

Your Role at Impact.com

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the delivery of complex engineering work — designing, building, testing, and deploying high-scale systems. You’ll work independently, support teammates, and guide architectural decisions. You’ll also partner closely with the Squad SSO to shape the product roadmap and ensure engineering excellence.

This role requires technical leadership, deep problem-solving ability, and strong experience across backend systems, cloud services, testing frameworks, and large-scale distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with distributed teams to meet quarterly engineering objectives.

• Design, build, test, and deploy software across complex, scalable systems.

• Write and maintain design documents, technical specifications, and test documentation.

• Participate in triage, debugging, and resolution of production issues.

• Develop both customer-facing and internal features using well-structured code.

• Create and review SQL scripts for technical updates.

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to strengthen team capability.

• Conduct thorough code reviews and approve pull requests.

• Support CI/CD pipelines, release cycles, and environment stability.

• Research emerging technologies and prototype solutions for future adoption.

• Influence system-wide architecture and contribute to long-term engineering strategy.

• Maintain high engineering standards through TDD, integration testing, and performance optimization.

• Drive creative and technical improvements to increase application efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of engineering experience with Java (Java 8+), Spring, SQL, and distributed systems.

• Strong knowledge of Hibernate/JPA, JDBC, REST/HTTP, CI tools (Jenkins/Bamboo), and build tools (Gradle/Maven).

• Experience with NoSQL, data lakes, cloud platforms, and load balancing.

• Ability to design and maintain scalable systems in production environments.

• Experience with large-scale processing and Google Cloud (highly beneficial).

• Strong understanding of JVM performance and garbage collection.

• Exposure to frontend technologies is advantageous.

• Ability to mentor, lead, and influence technical direction.

• Experience owning large components and driving architectural improvements.

• Bonus: PXA Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Certification.

Benefits

• Hybrid and casual work environment.

• Responsible PTO for real work-life balance.

• Professional training & development, including advanced product training.

• Medical aid & provident fund through leading providers.

• Restricted Stock Units with a 3-year vesting cycle.

• Internet allowance and fitness reimbursement.

• Global culture that values collaboration, growth, and innovation.

CV Tips for a Senior Software Engineering Role

• Showcase end-to-end ownership of complex systems or features.

• Highlight achievements using measurable outcomes (e.g., performance gains, cost savings).

• Emphasize architecture contributions, scalability improvements, and cloud experience.

• Include specific technologies, frameworks, and tools you have mastered.

• Demonstrate leadership experience through mentoring, technical guidance, or project direction.

• Keep your CV clean, structured, and focused on relevant engineering impact.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Impact.com is an equal opportunity employer. We provide fair and equitable treatment to all applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, caste, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, nationality, marital status, neurodivergence, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any protected characteristic.