Associate Software Engineer intern

About the company

impact.com 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.com 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. Today, over 5,000 global brands—including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics—rely on impact.com to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

About the role

As an Associate Software Engineer at impact.com, you will be a key contributor to one of our agile engineering squads, helping to develop, test, and maintain the software that powers our industry-leading platform. In this role, you will focus on delivering high-quality code, building meaningful tests, and collaborating with a distributed team to achieve our quarterly objectives. We are looking for a motivated and curious engineer who is eager to grow their skills. You will have the opportunity to work with Java, Spring, and other modern technologies, gaining practical exposure to cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines. This role is perfect for a team player who is comfortable asking "why" to understand the business impact of their work and is passionate about solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop & Maintain: Write clean, maintainable code for the impact.com platform, working both independently and while pair programming with senior engineers.
• Build & Test: Create meaningful unit, functional, and integration tests to ensure the quality and reliability of your software. Assist the QA team with testing in staging environments and fixing broken builds.
• Collaborate & Deliver: Actively participate in an Agile/Scrum environment, collaborating with a distributed team of engineers, product managers, and designers to fulfill the squad's quarterly objectives.
• Triage & Support: Play a crucial role in maintaining platform health by performing triage, verifying bug reports, and implementing fixes.
• Learn & Grow: Become an expert in the technologies used by your squad and help onboard new team members.

Requirements

• Hard working, passionate, and dedicated.
• Knowledge of Spring Framework.
• Experience with REST APIs.
• 1+ years professional experience using Java and MySQL.
• Experience with any JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React, Angular).
• Experience building on cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, or AWS).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar, or equivalent work experience.
• Creative, enthusiastic, and fun, with attention to detail.
• A fast learner who loves solving problems.

Pay

$80,000.00 - $90,000.00 base salary + 5% company performance bonus per year, plus eligibility to receive a Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Office-only catered lunch every Thursday, a healthy snack bar, and great coffee.
• Flexible spending accounts and 401(k).
• Responsible PTO policy for rest and recharge.
• Mental health and wellness benefit: up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage.
• Monthly gym reimbursement.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses for continuous learning.
• Parental leave: 26 weeks fully paid for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology stipend for home office setup and a monthly internet allowance.