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Equity Accountant
Cape Town
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Our Company:

At impact.com 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com

Your Role at impact.com:

As Equity Accountant, you will completely own the accounting and financial reporting for the Company’s complex equity and stock-based compensation arrangements. This is a highly visible and key role, and management will look to you as a subject matter expert to improve the Company’s processes and controls around equity and stock-based compensation. This role will eventually grow in scope to encompass general Technical Accounting matters in addition to equity and stock-based compensation.

You will play a critical role in month-end and quarter-end close, preparing journal entries and account roll-forwards and reconciliations. You will also perform technical accounting research, draft technical memos, and implement new accounting standards around equity and stock-based compensation. This role is adjacent to Financial Reporting and will also involve preparing footnote disclosures and uplifting the company’s equity reporting function to meet public company reporting standards. 

This role reports to the Technical Accounting Manager. You will also work closely with other teams, such as Legal, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, HR, Financial Reporting, and Corporate Development on an ad hoc basis. The ideal candidate for this role should be a fast learner, a self-starter, and capable of producing high-quality work without close supervision.

What You'll Do:

  • Fully own the accounting and financial reporting for the Company's equity and stock-based compensation, including liability-classified securities.
  • Stay apprised of the Company's various equity and stock-based compensation arrangements, including new or modified ones, and evaluate the appropriate accounting for them.
  • Prepare the necessary journal entries for equity and stock-based compensation on a monthly and quarterly basis.
  • Maintain and update Excel workbooks that support the accounting and financial reporting for equity and stock-based compensation and perform thorough self-review and reconciliation to ensure the workbook data and calculations are complete, accurate, and reasonable.
  • Maintain and update all Technical Accounting memos related to equity and stock-based compensation and draft new memos as needed.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of how equity and stock-based compensation affects the Company's financials and be able to discuss such topics with senior management.
  • Prepare the required financial statement information and footnote disclosures for equity and stock-based compensation.
  • Respond to ad hoc requests and prepare any necessary internal reporting as needed.
  • Proactively anticipate and identify issues and design solutions to address them.
  • Collaborate with other departments, such as Legal and other Finance teams, and the external auditors.
  • Take on general Technical Accounting research and memo preparation for other areas beyond just equity and stock-based compensation as permitted.

What You Have:

  • 3 to 5 years of Technical Accounting experience, including researching authoritative and nonauthoritative guidance, evaluating and concluding on complex accounting matters, and drafting technical memos and accounting policies
  • Active CPA or CA license
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting
  • Strong experience with US GAAP (or similar IFRS experience with the ability to quickly learn US GAAP) for complex securities such as redeemable preferred stock ("temporary equity"), stock options, stock warrants, RSUs, RSAs, liability-classified awards, and awards with multiple service and performance vesting conditions.Relevant experience includes the following accounting standards: ASC 718 (IFRS 2), ASC 470, 505, 815 (IAS 32), ASC 810 (IFRS 10, 12), and ASC 260 (IAS 33)
  • Experience as a self-starter who can manage multiple projects and priorities in a highly complex environment with evolving priorities and deadlines
  • Deep proficiency with Excel analysis and manipulation of large data sets, including use of pivot tables and lookup formulas
  • Strong attention to detail, high degree of accuracy, and the ability to deliver clean and concise work products
  • Ability to proactively identify problems, design solutions, and implement changes and improvements from scratch without prior reference or examples
  • Experience performing general ledger account reconciliations and analyses
  • Experience designing and implementing internal controls and processes around accounting and financial reporting
  • Experience collaborating and communicating with senior levels of management, cross-functional teams and departments, and external auditors
  • Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Public company experience and external audit experience preferred
  • Familiarity with ERPs and equity reporting software (Netsuite and Carta experience a plus)
  • General proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Suite
  • Nice to have:  Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Responsible PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Primary caregiver leave
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology stipend 

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.

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FP&A Analyst
Cape Town
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Our Company:

At impact.com 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at impact.com: 

Exciting opportunity for a newly qualified CA(SA) to join the market leader in Partnership Automation as a Financial Analyst.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is instrumental in helping to drive the decision making for Impact globally and acts as the analytical engine of our finance team to provide insights, high quality reporting and support business decision making. You will be a key functional member of Impact’s financial forecasting, annual budgeting processes, operating plan variance analysis and special projects.

You will be a key functional member of impact.com's financial forecasting, annual budgeting processes, operating plan variance analysis, and special projects.

What you'll do: 

  • Prepares financial and business related analysis and research in such areas as financial and expense performance, cost of sales, cash flow forecasting, and working capital
  • Prepares consolidated forecasts and budgets and analyzes trends in revenue, expense, capital expenditures and other related areas
  • Financial instruments accounting
  • Assist with updating the company’s forecasting model monthly with information from the accounting systems and updating expense and revenue forecasts based on actual business events and timelines
  • Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance this involves updating the company dashboards and providing analysis
  • Develop financial models and analysis to support strategic initiatives
  • Compiles and prepares reports, graphs and charts of data developed
  • Assists with special financial and business related studies and cooperates with other departments in preparing analyses
  • Assist with compilation and analysis of consolidated budgets and long range plans
  • Maintains and coordinates group completion of financial review templates and meetings
  • Prepare presentations to Board of Directors and Senior Management Team
  • Ad hoc analyses, as needed
  • Support functional area leaders in development of their annual Expense and Capital budgets
  • Provide monthly financial reporting and variance analysis
  • Ensure budget holders understand their performance vs. budget
  • Develop comprehensive monthly forecasts, with input from budget holders on all assumptions
  • Work with budget holders to rebalance their plans, in response to changes in business priorities
  • Prepare revised Quarterly Budgets for the company as the fiscal year progresses from each quarter to the next
  • Monthly, prepare company forecasts in collaboration with cross-functional team members and provide explanations for variances from prior expectations
  • Develop business cases in support of new investment opportunities, and work with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive initiative budgets
  • Develop, track, and analyze key operational metrics for each functional area

Does this sound like you?

  • Newly qualified CA(SA) with Big Four audit firm experience (preferred)
  • Relevant working experience within finance/audit/advisory/investment banking sectors (preferred)
  • B.Com/B.Sc Degree or relevant financial qualification
  • Experience preparing management accounts and financial statements
  • Experience in financial analysis and modeling
  • Strong understanding of accounting
  • Problem solver, highly analytical, results oriented, timeliness, attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, high energy and high responsibility environment
  • Excellent communication skills, able to present at board level
  • Influencing and Negotiation: Ability to influence at all levels, as well as a demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team and be assertive in driving successful management strategies
  • Relationship Management: Able to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners
  • Communication Skills: Demonstrates strong listening, written and oral communication skill
  • Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Responsible PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Primary caregiver leave
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology stipend 

 

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.

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Product

Lead UX Designer
Cape Town
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The Company

At impact.com 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

 

Your Role at impact.com:

The UX Design Lead will own and drive the design for multiple products at Impact.com. Work closely with product management, engineering, and executive leadership in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and drive the user experience of products from early-stage concepts through launch and beyond.

We are looking for a talented and experienced designer with exceptional problem-solving abilities, clear communication skills, solid design instincts, and obsessive attention to detail to work on complex problems that require elegant, customer-focused solutions. Ideal candidates are responsive, flexible, and are self-starters who bring original ideas and fresh approaches to everyday projects.

 

What You'll Do:

  • Be a part of a team of UX designers and researchers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment conducive to creativity and growth.
  • Define and communicate the UX vision, strategy, and design principles to ensure alignment and coherence across projects.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand business goals, user needs, and technical constraints, translating them into compelling user experiences.
  • Lead design reviews and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to team members, helping them develop their skills and grow as designers.
  • Work with our user researchers in gathering feedback to inform design decisions and iteratively improve the user experience.
  • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design solutions and guide implementation effectively.
  • Set high standards for pixel-perfect designs and attention to detail, ensuring that all deliverables meet established quality benchmarks.
  • Establish and maintain design standards, patterns, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in UX deliverables.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX design, and share knowledge with the team to drive continuous improvement.

 

What You Have?

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
  • 7 years of experience in UX/UI design, with a proven track record of leading successful design projects from concept to launch.
  • Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively present and articulate design concepts and rationale to stakeholders.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining design systems, style guides, and component libraries to ensure consistency and scalability across products.
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies and experience working in cross-functional Agile teams.
  • Proven experience in designing SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, with a deep understanding of the unique challenges and considerations involved.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a passion for crafting pixel-perfect designs.
  • Experience leading and managing a team of designers is highly desirable.
  • Portfolio showcasing a range of UX/UI design projects and process.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Responsible PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Primary caregiver leave
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology stipend 


Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or non-binary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

 




Sales

Customer Success Manager (Affiliate & Influencer)
Cape Town
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Our Company:

At impact.com 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Customer Success Manager, you will be an incredible product expert! This involves honing and growing customer relationships with buyers utilizing our software suite to build stronger & more successful marketing campaigns.

Portraying good business sense, a solid understanding of the digital ecosystem and being a critical thinker will have you shining and growing every day at impact.com. 

What You'll Do:

  • Delivering world-class support to our top clients.
  • Maintain a balanced proactive/reactive relationship with your assigned accounts.
  • Dedicated duties include account monitoring, regular check-ins and relationship building.
  • Reactive duties include training, product support, and appropriate delegation when technical issues and feature requests arise.

What You Have:

  • 2+ years customer service/relationship experience, preferably B2B
  • In-depth understanding of the influencer marketing’s ecosystem
  • Bachelor's Degree (Business, Marketing or related field a plus)
  • Consistent track record of providing stellar support to customers.
  • Strong understanding of the digital marketing ecosystem
  • Healthy dose of initiative and the ability to remain flexible
  • Detail-oriented and able to efficiently prioritize tasks
  • Be a critical thinker and an inventive problem-solver
  • Professional communication skills
  • Enthusiastic teammate
  • Great conflict resolution skills
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Responsible PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology stipend 

 

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.

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Technology

Build Engineer
Cape Town
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Our Company:

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.

If you have a desire to work in an organisation that is:

  • Passionate about its people
  • Focused on delivering the very best tech to our customers
  • Offering the flexibility to work how and where you are most successful
  • Obsessed with our customer’s success
  • The leading SaaS platform to automate partnerships - affiliate, influencer, technology partners, and more!
  • Entrepreneurial in spirit with a culture that rewards collaboration and curiosity
  • Obsessed with making a difference in business and to the wider community  

Impact.com is the global leader in Partnership Automation, working with innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi’s, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage their online affiliate, influencer, brand to brand, and content partnerships. The Impact Partnership Cloud 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, Impact has grown to over 1000 employees and 20 offices across Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia so there is plenty of opportunity for growth and advancement.

Your Role at Impact:

Could you be Impact.com's next Build Engineer? We have an exciting opportunity to work hands-on to create and develop continuous integration and delivery pipelines that is at the heart of the engineering department's workday. As a Build Engineer, your main purpose is to improve productivity by enabling fast, frequent & repeatable shipping of software.

 

What You'll Do:

  • Be an SME on the tools and technologies used by the squad
  • Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
  • Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfil the department's quarterly objectives
  • Automate recurring manual tasks & optimize repetitive processes
  • Develop code both independently and while pair programming
  • Perform code reviews
  • Research and prototype new technologies
  • Write and maintain design, user and test documentation
  • Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Develop, test and maintain software for the Platform
  • Build meaningful unit, functional and integration level tests for the software built
  • Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
  • Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues
  • Maintain & improve continuous integration process & work towards continuous delivery
  • Increased efficiency and optimal use of organisational resources
  • Better and proactive customer service due to increased coherence within the organisation
  • Develop alternative solutions to possible bottlenecks

What You Have:

  • Tertiary qualification or equivalent years' experience in a similar position 
  • 2 years object oriented programming experience (Java, Groovy) 
  • Experience with VCS administration (GitHub / Gitlab / Bitbucket)
  • 2 years build automation experience (Gradle) 
  • 5 years experience with CI server - Jenkins (admin, Jenkinsfile & shared library coding) / CirceCI 
  • 2 years cloud computing experience (GCP / AWS / Azure) 
  • Experience with Containerisation (Docker, Helm, K8S)
  • Pipeline orchestration experience (ArgoCD / Flux / GitHub Actions)
  • Hashicorp stack experience (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Packer)
  • Scripting/programming experience (Shell, Python)
  • Static code analysis - SonarQube
  • Binary repository - Sonatype Nexus
  • Open source library analysis - Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle / OWASP Dependency Check
  • DB migration experience (Liquibase / Flyway)
  • Test automation experience (Selenium)

Benefits/Perks:

  • Unlimited PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Stock Options
  • Internet Allowance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Casual work environment

Impact 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.

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DevOps Engineer
Cape Town
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Our Company:

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.

If you have a desire to work in an organisation that is:

  • Passionate about its people
  • Focused on delivering the very best tech to our customers
  • Offering the flexibility to work how and where you are most successful
  • Obsessed with our customer’s success
  • The leading SaaS platform to automate partnerships - affiliate, influencer, technology partners, and more!
  • Entrepreneurial in spirit with a culture that rewards collaboration and curiosity
  • Obsessed with making a difference in business and to the wider community  

Impact.com is the global leader in Partnership Automation, working with innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levi’s, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage their online affiliate, influencer, brand to brand, and content partnerships. The Impact Partnership Cloud 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, Impact has grown to over 1000 employees and twenty offices across Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia so there is plenty of opportunity for growth and advancement.

Your Role at Impact:

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for working hands-on to create and develop automated, containerised cloud application platforms, and design and implement DevOps processes that use those platforms. To act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving complex, multi-tier architecture problems that span a number of different platforms. Plans and conducts technical tasks associated with the implementation and maintenance of internal cloud enterprise-shared virtualisation infrastructure. Develops and executes cloud solution roadmaps as they relate to business and executes company strategy to drive the achievement of business objective. Maintains consistent version control across platforms, and monitoring of continuous deployment. Implements proactive monitoring practices, derive actionable insights from telemetry data, ensure the reliability and security of IT operations, and optimise performance. Documents system specifications for internal use and end user, highlighting bug fixes, new features and potential issues.

What You'll Do:

  • Become familiar with technologies used on the squad
  • Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
  • Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
  • Automate recurring manual tasks & optimize repetitive
  • Develop code both independently and while pair programming
  • Perform code reviews
  • Research and prototype new technologies
  • Write and maintain design, user and test documentation
  • Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Develop, test and maintain software for the Platform
  • Build meaningful unit, functional and integration level tests for the software built
  • Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
  • Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues
  • Maintain build- and stage stability
  • Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications

What You Have:

  • A solid background in administrating Linux operating systems, preferably CentOS, RedHat and Ubuntu
  • A good understanding of IaC ( infrastructure of code ) principles and adopting these methods to drive automation and self service.
  • A comprehensive grasp of coding and scripting in common languages, including Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby.
  • Familiarity with at least one primary coding language, like C++ or Java.
  • The ability to identify, evaluate, and integrate diverse open-source technologies and cloud services.
  • Proven experience with business and CI/CD tools like Prometheus, GitHub, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Jenkins.
  • Proven experience with public cloud resources and services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google
  • Familiarity with various IT monitoring and management tools like Cloudflare and Elastic
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues across staging, uat and production
  • A strong focus on security and adhere to NIST and CIS

Nice to have:

Benefits/Perks:

  • Unlimited PTO policy
  • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
  • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund
  • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
  • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Stock Options
  • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Casual work environment

Impact 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.

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Software Quality Engineer
Cape Town
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Our Company:

At impact.com 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

 Your Role at impact.com:

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Impact, your key responsibilities will carry a dual  mandate, being to deliver the highest quality software to our end users while simultaneously ensuring the persistence of the quality standard by means of automated regression. This is a rare opportunity in QA to have a direct influence on the quality of our software through every phase of the feature delivery workflow. This role will fully encompass all responsibilities associated with the Quality Assurance complement for a designated squad.

The applicant who is ultimately successful will be expected to scrutinize new features with a high attention to detail and document the methodology utilised in the form of a detailed test plan containing the respective test cases specific to the feature.  Upon successful deployment of the feature, the scenarios detailed in the test plan are then to be automated using Java and selenium webdriver.

The person filling this role will also be mandated with conducting the regression testing phase of the deployment workflow process and reporting on results timeously. The successful candidate will partner closely with software Development Engineers and Product Managers to understand product requirements as well as functionality for developing appropriate build scripts, test plans and test cases.

What You'll Do:

  • Accountable for Automation Testing
  • Accountable for creating, configuring and maintaining a suite of automated regressions tests & their environment
  • Test Planning & Analysis of Requirements
  • Sign-off on manually scripted test cases
  • Review and action pull requests 
  • Review product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
  • Consult with product development to evaluate system interfaces, operational requirements, and performance requirements of the overall system.
  • Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated software projects to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions
  • Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the SDLC.
  • Maintain effective communication with the project software engineers on project limitation, capability, performance requirement and hardware interface changes.
  • Execute test plans and create test reports to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
  • Testing will include functional and nonfunctional, integration, regression, system, smoke and sanity testing (minimum)
  • Monitor program performance after implementation to prevent re-occurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
  • Conduct compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs.
  • Formulate and design software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
  • Create test tools that facilitate data gathering and test method execution.
  • Support manufacturing by verifying fixture software or any software used during production.
  • Participate in risk management meetings.
  • Scripting of test cases against manually scripted test cases / TestRail
  • Run regression tests against the applications then diagnose & report all issues
  • Implement automated tests using a Selenium framework
  • Defect Management
  • Implement scripts and server configurations for automated build and testing environments
  • Provide reports and procedures on Automation runs & progress
  • Reporting and tracking test metrics such as test and code coverage
  • Ensure QA automated test framework is documented, with focus on continuity

 What You Have:

  • Solid understanding of computer programming and software development
  • Ability to troubleshoot equipment problems and perform complex system tests
  • Creative thinking skills
  • Detail-oriented personality
  • Excellent manual dexterity
  • Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team
  • At least 3 years experience in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
  • Bachelor's Degree/BTEC
  • ISTQB/ISEB (Pref)
  • At least 2 years of experience in developing RESTful APIs
  • At least 3 years of test automation experience: Selenium, Jasmine, POM, Cucumber
  • Certified in Java, Spring or AWS technologies (Pref)
  • Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Responsible PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology Stipend

 

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.

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