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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, L’Oréal, and Fanatics – rely on impact.com to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer on the Tracking team, you will work within a fast-paced, agile team, implementing the next generation of the core user application and building highly scalable features for the world’s biggest brands. You will learn our cloud, data, and microservice tech stack and tools. You will own product features from idea to production.

We work with many of the world’s best-known brands – you will be directly building the product we are selling to these companies.

• Design and develop features, modules, and services.
• Build internal APIs for sharing data and functionality.
• Improve deployments of the company’s applications and services.
• Troubleshoot issues before they spoil your weekend.
• Work with external APIs.
• Be part of a continuously improving, agile team.

• 4+ years’ experience building software.
• Fluent in Java Spring Framework.
• Fluent in relational databases.
• Experience with Claude Code AI.
• Experience building applications with public cloud providers and serverless technologies.
• Familiar with message buses like Kafka.
• Familiar with JavaScript and frontend web requests.
• Ready to learn from a team that has taken companies from startup to billion-dollar unicorns.

• Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

$120,000 – $140,000 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.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Office-only catered lunch every Thursday, a healthy snack bar, and great coffee.
• Flexible spending accounts and 401(k).
• Flexible Working: Responsible PTO policy that lets you take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We’re committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, plus additional dependent coverage. Monthly gym reimbursement policy to support physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with a 3‑year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses for continuous learning.
• Parental Support: 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: Technology stipend to set up home office and monthly allowance for internet expenses.

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 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.