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Software Engineer - Product Data Systems

Impact.com

Posted 3 months agoCape Town, South Africa

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Mid-Level

Category

Engineering

Job Description

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 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. Publishers rely on our platform to identify which products to promote and which advertisers offer the best opportunities. 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. We’re looking for engineers who naturally incorporate these technologies to move faster, explore ideas more quickly, and tackle difficult data problems. From design and development through to testing, deployment, and production support, you’ll help ensure the reliability of the PDS platform. You’re comfortable working with large datasets and complex queries, and understand the data structures required to build matching and mapping systems. An interest in how affiliate marketing works and how product data directly infl
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Requirements

  • What You Bring: 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 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.

Responsibilities

  • Advertisers provide massive product catalogues.
  • Your work will power the infrastructure that makes this possible.
  • You’ll also bring an AI-forward mindset to engineering.
  • Modern development increasingly involves tools such as GitHub Copilot, LLMs, and automated classification systems.
  • What You'll Do: Design and maintain Java services that process millions of product records every day.
  • Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform.
  • 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.
  • Work closely with product managers and partner teams to translate complex technical challenges into solutions that improve the publisher experience.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority.
  • We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
  • Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning.
  • Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.

How to Apply

Apply via the Impact.com careers portal.

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