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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Impact - **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Command-Line Interface, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Relational Databases, Linux, Distributed Systems, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java Web Services, Spring Framework, Operational Databases, Search Technologies, Service Design, Google Cloud, Software Application Programming, Generative AI, Indexer, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Serverless Computing - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/impact/jobs/8459601002 ## About the Role * Demonstrated experience delivering production software, learning quickly, and working closely with Product to ship customer-focused features. * Professional Java and Spring Framework development experience, with the ability to design, implement, test, and operate backend services. * Comfortable in the Linux terminal, using command-line to troubleshoot systems. * Fluency with relational databases and experience modeling, querying, and evolving production data. * Experience building applications on public cloud platforms and working with cloud-native or serverless technologies. * Experience with asynchronous or event-driven systems, such as Kafka or comparable message buses. * Experience working with distributed systems, including the practical trade-offs around reliability, performance, and service integration. * Working familiarity with JavaScript and browser-to-backend web requests. * Clear communication and collaborative problem-solving skills, with a record of helping teams deliver high-quality software. Nice To Have: * Production experience in e-commerce, including high-transaction or high-throughput purchasing, catalog, checkout, payments, or partner-commerce systems. * Production experience in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI-search, or search infrastructure, such as retrieval, indexing, ingestion, semantic or vector search, or high-throughput query systems. * JVM performance investigation and tuning, concurrency, request batching, or latency-sensitive distributed-service design. * Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its tool suite. * Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code, thoughtfully and effectively. * Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA. Salary Range: $140,000 - $200,000 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. ## Description We are growing our Tracking team and hiring experienced Java engineers who enjoy delivering products that operate at meaningful scale. You will build and evolve the services, APIs, and data workflows behind products used by many of the world's best-known brands. This is one flexible senior-level opportunity. We are looking for strong product-delivery engineers and will assess each candidate's technical depth, experience, and best placement on the team during the hiring process. Depending on your strengths, you may contribute through hands-on feature and service delivery, technical leadership, or broader architectural ownership. Candidates who can participate in a hybrid work model with at least two in-office days per week are highly preferred. What You'll Do: * Own features from concept to production. * Design, build, and evolve Java services, modules, and internal APIs that support high-volume tracking, data, and commerce workflows. * Make sound technical decisions across service boundaries, relational data, asynchronous processing, reliability, and operational performance. * Improve the deployment, observability, scalability, and maintainability of our applications and services. * Investigate and resolve production issues before they spoil your weekend. * Integrate with external APIs and build clear, reliable interfaces for internal consumers. * Share technical judgment with the team through design discussions, code review, mentoring, and practical engineering leadership. * Be part of a continuously improving, agile team., Kindly ensure your application is complete; incomplete applications will not be considered. Please acknowledge.* Select... Address* LinkedIn Profile* Do you have hands-on, production experience developing or implementing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) solutions? If so, can you briefly describe what you built and the technologies you used?* Have you ever worked on any ecommerce platforms or integrated services for purchasing, catalog, checkout, payments, or partner-commerce systems?* What AI tools do you use and how are you using AI in your development practice?* This position is located in Columbus, OH. Are you able to attend onsite interviews in Columbus if selected? Would you consider relocating to Columbus if you're outside the local market?* Will you now or in the future require employer sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B)?* Select... What are your full-time base salary requirements?*, We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process. 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Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. As set forth in Impact.com's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. Gender Select... Are you Hispanic/Latino? Select... Race & Ethnicity Definitions If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. 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