Associate Software Engineer
Impact.com3 months ago
Cape Town, South AfricaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Own the development and evolution of impact.com’s Shopify integration, including Apps, Web Pixels, and platform extensions.
- Build privacy-compliant solutions that capture conversions, refunds, and customer events accurately across Shopify’s evolving platform.
- Design and improve secure merchant installation and onboarding experiences, including OAuth flows and credential management.
- Build and maintain the Ruby on Rails application connecting Shopify with impact.com’s APIs and workflow engine.
- Design resilient webhook consumers and manage high-volume data pipelines and synchronization between platforms.
- Own the production health, performance, security, and resilience of the Shopify integration.
- Manage API version upgrades, monitor webhook delivery, troubleshoot merchant-specific issues, and evaluate capabilities such as Checkout Extensibility, Functions, and Web Pixels.
Requirements
- Production experience building Shopify Apps, integrations, or platform extensions beyond storefront development.
- Experience integrating complex SaaS platforms and designing reliable event-driven systems.
- Experience building and maintaining production backend services.
- Ruby on Rails experience is preferred; experienced Shopify engineers with Node.js, Python, PHP, or Java experience are also considered.
- Comfort with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and browser-based tracking technologies.
- Familiarity with Shopify Apps, Checkout UI Extensions, Web Pixels, Shopify Functions, App Bridge, GraphQL Admin API, OAuth, Webhooks, and Shopify Partner Dashboard.
- Understanding of APIs, OAuth authentication, webhooks, rate limiting, background processing, and high-volume event pipelines.
- Experience with Shopify Plus, marketing attribution, affiliate platforms, conversion tracking, analytics platforms, commerce integrations, workflow automation, and production monitoring and observability is desirable.
Benefits
- Flexible working with a Responsible PTO policy.
- Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage.
- Monthly gym reimbursement.
- Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- Paid parental leave of 26 weeks for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
- Technology stipend for home-office setup and a monthly internet allowance.
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About Impact.com
Impact.com builds a SaaS platform for partnership and affiliate marketing, used by brands to manage affiliates, influencers, content publishers, and referrals, with tools for tracking, attribution, commissioning, and fraud detection. Its revenue comes from software subscriptions and related services. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, it is privately held and counts customers such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics.