Principal Software Engineer (Big Data)

Our Company:

At Impact.com our culture is our soul. 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 is the global leader in Partnership Automation. We work with enterprise and innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi’s, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage all different types of partnerships. From social influencers, B2B, strategic partners, publishers, and traditional affiliates, we have them covered. Our combined suite of products 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 by the same team that founded Commission Junction, Impact has grown to over 900 employees and eleven offices across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. 

Why this role is exciting:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be working within a fast-paced, agile team building data enhancement tools and APIs.  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.

Responsibilities:

• The Principal Engineer will lead and manage one or more squads that deliver features to specific areas in the Impact platform.
• In this capacity, the manager will collaborate with Product Management to form product roadmap for their domain(s)
• The Manager will lead day-to-day tactical execution of engineering activities for their squad(s), leveraging Agile techniques
• The Manager will ensure quality of delivery of their squad(s) through code reviews, ensuring documentation exists, performing retrospectives, etc.
• Engineering Managers at Impact are also expected to be hands-on Engineers themselves, delivering features to the platform on a consistent basis.
• Manages a team of software engineers that architect and design software on the Impact Platform
• Works with these employees to ensure company goals are met
• Promotes/Articulates company vision and opportunity within the team
• Measures employee performance
• The Manager has responsibility to advocate for team headcount, employee promotions, and terminations
• The Engineering Manager ensures employee goals are set and progress is measured against them. The Manager also leads performance management efforts.

The Engineering Manager ensures their squad-level roadmap(s) are set, and are delivered to plan

Does this sound like you? 

• 10+ years professional experience in a software engineering role.
• 4+ years in some kind of lead capacity.
• Fluent in Java or Scala
• Knowledge in web scraping / crawling
• Experience with big data processing of web data and content
• Experience with collecting, storing, processing and analyzing large amounts of data
• Continuous Integration (CI) / delivery methods, tooling, integrations, DevOps.
• Comfortable with public cloud providers and serverless technologies
• Knowledge of Digital Marketing or Web Analytics is a big plus.

Benefits:

• Competitive Benefits & Perks package
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible work hours
• Attractive office location in the center of Aker Brygge
• Professional development assistance
• An international community, with opportunities to travel abroad and work in all our headquarters.
• An employee-led culture team that plans our happy hours, parties, and other events to celebrate our many successes
• An inclusive work environment, where we support, trust and cheer on each other

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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