Software Engineer - Product Data Systems

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, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Software Engineer on the Product Data Systems (PDS) team, you’ll build and scale the systems that move and interpret product data across the partnership ecosystem.

Advertisers provide massive product catalogues. Publishers rely on our platform to identify which products to promote and which advertisers offer the best opportunities. Your work will power the infrastructure that makes this possible.

A key part of the role involves building intelligent systems that recognise when products from different advertisers are effectively the same item, enabling publishers to compare offers and optimise their content and revenue.

You’ll also bring an AI-forward mindset to engineering. Modern development increasingly involves tools such as GitHub Copilot, LLMs, and automated classification systems. We’re looking for engineers who naturally incorporate these technologies to move faster, explore ideas more quickly, and tackle difficult data problems.

What You'll Do:

• Design and maintain Java services that process millions of product records every day.
• Develop systems that recognise similar products across different advertiser catalogues using a mix of algorithms, heuristics, and AI-assisted classification.
• Use modern AI tooling to accelerate development, from prototyping ideas and generating tests to debugging complex data flows.
• Build features that analyse aggregated sales signals such as commission rates, product performance, and purchase frequency to help publishers make better decisions.
• Share best practices, mentor teammates, and help the team safely integrate modern development tools into production workflows.
• From design and development through to testing, deployment, and production support, you’ll help ensure the reliability of the PDS platform.
• Work closely with product managers and partner teams to translate complex technical challenges into solutions that improve the publisher experience.

What You _Bring:

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• You have deep experience building services in Java and designing maintainable systems.
• You’ve built systems that operate at scale and are comfortable working with cloud infrastructure.
• You actively use tools like GitHub Copilot, LLMs, or other AI-assisted workflows to increase development velocity.
• You’re comfortable working with large datasets and complex queries, and understand the data structures required to build matching and mapping systems.
• You know when to adopt new technologies and when to prioritise stability and reliability.
• You enjoy sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and contributing to stronger team practices.
• An interest in how affiliate marketing works and how product data directly influences publisher revenue is a strong advantage.

Why Engineers Enjoy Working Here:

• Build systems that operate at significant scale
• Solve complex real-world data problems
• Work with modern technologies and development tooling
• Collaborate with experienced engineers across a global platform
• See your work directly influence revenue for publishers and brands

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.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can 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: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your 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 their 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.