Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

You will build and maintain shared engineering components like service scaffolding, logging, and observability tools to improve developer productivity. Additionally, you will collaborate with product teams to identify platform-wide challenges and lead the adoption of standardized solutions.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience building production applications using Java and Spring. A proven track record of developing shared libraries, APIs, or platform services and strong technical communication skills are required.

Skills

• Java
• Spring
• API design
• SDK development
• Platform engineering
• Observability
• Authentication
• CI/CD
• GitHub Actions
• Technical writing
• System architecture
• Agentic tooling
• MCP servers
• Cloud infrastructure
• Software migration
• Performance optimization

Benefits

• Health and prescription coverage
• Vision and dental care
• Virtual health care
• Out-of-country medical coverage
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Health care spending account
• Employee assistance programs
• Responsible PTO policy
• Mental health and wellness benefit
• Gym reimbursement
• Restricted stock units
• Coursera subscription
• Parental leave
• Technology stipend
• Internet allowance

About this role

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, and Fanatics - rely on impact.com to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.
The Team:
Application Platform Engineering owns what every product team at impact.com builds on: shared libraries, service templates and engineering standards. Our goal is to build the paved road, where the right way to build a service is also the easiest, and compliant by default.
You'll join a small but growing team, reporting directly to our Senior Director of Engineering and working with a dedicated product manager, early enough to shape what we build and how we work.
Your Role at impact.com:
Your customers are other engineers, and your reach is all of engineering. What you build runs inside every new service, so a good decision pays off many times over, and a security patch lands once and reaches everyone. Where five teams would each solve the same problem differently, you give it one owner and one good implementation.
This is a hands-on role: most of your time goes into writing and shipping code, with the rest spent working with teams on discovery and adoption. You'll talk to teams to find out where they're losing days, decide which problems are worth solving once for everyone, build the solution, and see it through to adoption. Teams adopt our solutions because they're the best option and we treat them like internal products with a roadmap, versioned releases, and good documentation.
What You'll Do:
Build and own shared components such as service scaffolding, logging, observability and authentication, shipped as libraries, SDKs, shared services and agentic tooling (MCP servers, agents, skills and plugins)
Find problems by working directly with product teams and decide what's worth solving centrally, using AI to confirm impact and scope in repositories you don't own
Solve the problems that only show up at platform scale: keeping APIs compatible for consumers you don't control, and moving live services onto new foundations without downtime
Own adoption end to end, including rollout plans, migration tooling, upgrade guides, and hands-on support. Measure adoption and reliability and report them honestly
Turn our engineering blueprints into code, such as CI/CD policy checks in GitHub Actions, template governance, and dependency policy, so following best practice is the default
Shape how services get built at impact.com, through design reviews, technical proposals, and the example your code sets
What You Have:
Senior-level experience (typically 5+ years) building production applications with Java and Spring
A track record of building software other engineers depend on, such as APIs, SDKs, shared libraries and platform services
Good judgement about platform design: which abstractions are worth having, when a default should be opinionated, and where to leave room for teams to extend it
Experience driving change across team boundaries, including the persuasion and support it takes to land a migration
Disciplined use of AI tooling: you direct it through planning, implementation and validation, and you can tell when its output is wrong. You also understand how agentic tooling such as MCP servers, agents, skills and plugins work
Clear technical writing: documentation people can follow and design proposals that lead to decisions
What Success Looks Like:
After one month: You know the engineering landscape: who builds what, on which stacks, and where the same problem is being solved more than once. You've met the teams who will be your customers
After three months: You've shipped something others use, and you can point to the friction it removed. Other teams bring their problems to you
After twelve months: You own a meaningful part of the platform end to end, with a roadmap you helped shape, adoption you can show, and standards teams follow by default
Nice to Have:
Experience building and supporting SaaS products
Experience beyond Java, particularly TypeScript or PHP
Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA
If you don't tick every box but this is the work you want to be doing, we'd still like to hear from you.
Salary Range: $150,000 – $165,000 CAD per year, plus additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant. *This is the pay range the Company believes is equitable for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.
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.
Strong extended health benefits: Health & Prescription coverage, vision and dental care, virtual health care, out-of-country medical coverage
Insurance coverage (life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and more)
Health Care Spending Account
Two different Employee Assistance Programs
Flexible Working: Ou...

About impact.com

Software Development · 1,001-5,000 employees · headquartered in Santa Barbara, California · founded 2008