Senior Tech Lead

Impact.com • Remote • 3d ago

The 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, 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. Your Role at impact.com: As a Tech Lead, 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 prioritise and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design, and implementation. What You'll Do: 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 the 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 What You Have: Initiative Adaptability Being a team player Personal Development Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience. 8+ years experience: Java 8+ / PHP / JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM & Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, Cloud Computing, Load balancing 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 Salary range: $180,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year, plus an additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive a Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant. Benefits (Perks): Remote first with roles being open to candidates who are eligible to work in Canada and are tax residents of Canada. Strong extended health benefits, mental health support and support for new parents are provided to all employees on day-one of employment. 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 We encourage our employees to take the time they need with unlimited time off: The last two weeks of the year are also given as holiday to all employees Global holidays - We all celebrate a holiday a quarter where we all get the same day off. Other benefits include: Parental Leave Top-Up Program Flexible work hours Monthly Internet Allowance Technology Stipend Fitness Subsidy An employee-led culture team that plans inclusive events- meaning time together and other events to celebrate our many successes! An established company with a cool, high-velocity work ethos, where each person can make a difference! 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.