Software Engineering Manager

About impact
impact 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 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 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 to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact:

We are offering a unique opportunity for an accomplished engineering leader to work side-by-side with other engineering leaders in an exciting and fast-paced environment. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will help drive architectural decisions and delivery of our Google Cloud (GCP) backend systems. In this role, you will act as a "player-coach"—spending roughly 70% of your time on coding, design and troubleshooting, and 30% on mentoring, code reviews, and elevating the technical capabilities of your team.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the Partnerships Automation squad
• Work closely with engineering managers and program managers across various squad
• Manage projects from start to completion. Help shape road maps and requirements
• Conduct regular 1:1s with engineers to guide their career growth, identify skill gaps, and provide actionable feedback
• Own the design and implementation of high-performance microservices using Java (Spring Boot)
• Write high quality, scalable code
• Integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities into our product suite
• Design, optimize, and maintain complex relational database schemas and document stores
• Troubleshoot critical production issues
• Ensure various processes and best practices are followed throughout the squad

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree or higher required or equivalent experience
• 8 years Java, Spring, and SQL required
• Experience leading a squad of 3+ engineers
• Experience in building out MCP endpoints with LLM integrations
• Knowledge of workflow platforms like temporal or conductor
• Scaling out infrastructure; Kubernetes (GKE), containers, podman
• Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Have been responsible for the entire lifecycle of designing, implementing, testing and deploying of SaaS software
• Strong project management skills
• Above all else - hungry, humble and smart

Salary Range: $180,000 - $190,000 CAD per year, plus an additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive a Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant.*This is the pay range the Company believes is equitable for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Benefits and Perks:

At impact, 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.

• Strong extended health benefits: 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
• 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.

Note: Benefits may vary by location and are subject to local regulations.

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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.

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