Full Stack Software Engineer

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.

Your Role at impact.com:

As we are growing our Tracking team, we’re looking to hire a full stack software engineer who enjoys delivering products that operate at meaningful scale. You will build and evolve the services, APIs, and data workflows behind products used by many of the world's best-known brands. You will also be responsible for providing screens with smooth user experiences to connect these data flows to our customers.

This is a hybrid role based in our Columbus, OH office, requiring in-office days on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week.

What You'll Do:

• Own features from concept to production.
• Design, build, and evolve Java services, modules, and APIs that support high-volume tracking, data, and commerce workflows.
• Provide guidance and expertise for maintaining and creating the screens that help configure and drive our backend data processing
• Make sound technical decisions across service boundaries, relational data, asynchronous processing, reliability, and operational performance.
• Investigate and resolve production issues before they spoil your weekend.
• Integrate with external APIs and build clear, reliable interfaces for consumers.
• Share technical judgment with the team through design discussions, code review, and mentoring.
• Be part of a continuously improving, agile team.

What You Bring:

• Java & Spring: Solid understanding of Java 8+, Spring frameworks, and Spring MVC.
• Database & Persistence: Experience with SQL, MySQL (or other RDBMS), and JDBC.
• Web Foundations: Expertise in vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DOM manipulation, and RESTful APIs.
• Modern Client-Side Frameworks: Applied experience with Vue preferred
• Comfortable in the Linux terminal, using command-line to troubleshoot systems.
• Clear communication and collaborative problem-solving skills, with a record of helping teams deliver high-quality software.
• Solid security practices: Working with JWTs, guarding against XSS, and preventing SQL injection.

Nice To Have:

• Experience translating requirements and stakeholder feedback into features, and building interfaces from design mockups (e.g., Figma).
• Production delivery experience: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions) and using CDNs to serve web assets.
• Experience building applications on public cloud platforms and working with cloud-native or serverless technologies (Google Cloud preferred).
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code, thoughtfully and effectively.
• Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $135,000 per year, plus an additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on C