Senior Big Data Engineer III

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.

Why this role is exciting! 

As a Senior Big Data Engineer III, your focus will be on delivering epics for the squad through planning, designing, implementing, testing and deploying. You will be self-sufficient with an understanding of ancillary services and infrastructure. This role assumes that you are able to define the correct cloud services to use, implement new libraries and identify and solve problems independently. You will have experience across multiple languages with practical experience in common architectural patterns, implementing blackbox and whitebox testing and complex integration testing frameworks. At this level, you are expected to deliver independently as well as unblock and assist team members with delivery. You should feel comfortable escalating and communicating effectively.

You will also be working closely with the SSO to prioritise, and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design and implementation.

What you will be doing: 

• Collaborate with the team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
• Design, implement features, and write tests on the Impact Data Platform leveraging most Big Data Tech Stack
• Perform Releases, maintain continuous integration pipeline, code merging
• Advanced knowledge in numerous: Hadoop, Spark, SQL, NoSQL, Streaming
• On-Call for Monitoring and Alerting and communicate to team / Company as needed
• Analyze any job failure, log tickets in JIRA, deliver analysis, code fix, perform data fix
• Consulting, leaning into other squads (roadmap, tech), and communicating cross squad via slack, email, JIRA, Zoom.
• Create, Maintain & Communicate proper documentation
• Advanced knowledge of various Cloud solutions and Managed Services
• Able to tune the performance of Systems, Pipeline flows, Applications, Datastores
• Assist systems group with database and other infrastructure upgrades (sometimes off- hours/weekends)
• Gain and maintain enough understanding of The Business to deliver effective solutions
• Perform data quality analysis and introduce monitors with proper alerting for the team
• Take the lead role when interviewing new candidates
• Initiate and lead technical approaches and process improvements with team
• Mentor Associate Engineers as well knowledge share within the Team and Engineering Department
• Introduce & lay the foundation for new technologies in our stack
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis on numerous Provide insights and recommendations
• Contract negotiation with 3rd All necessary duties as required
• Take a leadership role on Projects; become the responsible point person for some Company Goals
• Develop Epics, Tasks, Sub-tasks; working with Product Manager as well as cross squad planning
• Provide projections for Growth and Stability
• Decide on new technologies within Impact Tech
• 3rd Party Pricing / Cloud usage and budget management
• Expand Technology learning within Impact by promoting outside the squad (need better wording)
• Thinking outside your own squad - how to improve other teams
• Proven track record writing scalable, reliable, resilient pipelines

Does this sound like you?

• Completed BSc. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Any opensource contributions are strongly
• Desire to work with Big Data and surrounding Technologies
• 3+ years experience with Java/Scala Programming
• 5+ years Software Development
• Agile / Iterative Kanban / Scrum
• Experience working in a Start-up or Internet business is valuable
• Customer Focus
• Service-Oriented
• Experience working with Large Data Volumes - Terabytes to Petabytes(preferred)
• Experience working with Big Data Tech - Spark, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, HBase
• Ability to tune numerous types of system and applications in a Data Pipeline
• Exposure and experience in any Google Cloud technology highly desired
• Knowledge of Digital Marketing or Web Analytics is a big plus
• Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, integrations
• Ability to Implement core principles of Ralph Kimball - Star Schemas / Facts / Dimensions
• Advanced Experience with Relational Databases, Table design, SQL
• Deep knowledge of multiple Big Data Technologies
• Experience Mentoring / Training teams
• Masters degree or advanced learning in a related field preferred

Nice to have:

•  Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

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
• Technology stipend.

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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