Principal Engineer, Quality Platform
Impact.com9 hours ago
Cape Town, South AfricaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap, and standards for the QA platform.
- Build and prototype difficult platform components, including CLIs, MCPs, frameworks, full-stack web applications, and AI-agent capabilities.
- Design, ship, and operate reliable, secure, and cost-conscious distributed production systems.
- Evaluate AI-assisted testing and provide evidence of the quality and usefulness of its output.
- Lead technically across teams by setting standards, reviewing designs and code, mentoring engineers, and influencing without authority.
- Partner with engineering leadership and the Engineering Enablement PM on platform readiness and adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering complex systems.
- Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams and building platforms, frameworks, or developer tools adopted by other engineers.
- Deep hands-on backend and infrastructure experience designing, building, and operating highly available distributed production systems.
- Expertise in at least one backend language and ability to work across other languages.
- Experience building and shipping LLM- or agent-based tools and measuring whether their output is reliable enough to trust.
- Experience with test infrastructure, developer productivity, or CI/CD at scale.
- Strong technical writing, including design documentation and decisions for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience includes LLM or agent evaluation infrastructure, testing non-deterministic systems, providing context to AI agents through MCPs and CLIs, migrating teams to shared tooling standards, and enough frontend skill to build usable internal tools.
Benefits
- Responsible PTO policy and flexible working environment.
- Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, additional dependent coverage, and monthly gym reimbursement.
- Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- Fully paid parental leave of 26 weeks for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
- Technology stipend for a home office and 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.