Tech Lead - Data Systems

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About impact.com 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. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. Your Role at impact.com : As a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead for Data Systems, you will lead a squad of engineers focused on designing, building, and maintaining data systems that are maintainable, reliable, and understandable at scale. You will set technical direction, own squad-level delivery outcomes, and manage the health and growth of your team - all while remaining a strong hands-on engineering contributor. This role is centered on designing resilient distributed systems, including handling retries, partial failures, backpressure, and consistency tradeoffs. You will set the bar for clear interfaces, strong tests, and solid observability (metrics and tracing) so our systems are easy to run, debug, and evolve - and hold the team to that bar consistently. You are expected to function as the primary technical and people leader for your squad: breaking down complex problems into well-defined units of work, driving planning and cross-team alignment, governing releases and stability, and developing your direct reports through coaching and feedback. This is a software engineering leadership role, not a data analysis/statistical role or an ETL/SQL-focused role. Essential Responsibilities Own squad-level delivery, technical direction, and outcomes (quality, stability, deadlines) across multiple workstreams Provide direct people management: coaching, performance feedback, career development, delegation, hiring input, and team health Set and align technical approach for the squad; make or drive key decisions, resolve cross-engineer disagreements, and ensure designs fit architecture and guidelines Drive coordination to meet quarterly objectives - work breakdown, sequencing, dependency management, and alignment with stakeholders across a distributed team Serve as the final accountable approver for PRs, release readiness, point releases, and build/stage stability; ensure operational discipline is followed Own timely incident response patterns, drive follow-up, ensure preventative actions happen (not just fixes), and improve processes to reduce recurrence Set engineering standards for the squad (documentation expectations, review rigor, testing discipline, quality bars) and ensure consistency Break down complex data logic into small, testable units and model this practice for the team Instrument systems with strong observability - metrics and tracing - to support debugging and operational confidence Develop code both independently and while pair programming This is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Required Qualifications Education & Experience Completed B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience 4+ years of Software Development experience, including experience leading or tech-leading a team Technical Skills (Non-Negotiable) Comfort and proficiency in a typed language such as Java, Scala, or Kotlin Strong software engineering habits: modularity, testing, abstraction Proven ability to set and evolve technical direction for a squad or workstream Knowledge of software design patterns and the ability to select and implement the right pattern for a given problem Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and building meaningful test suites Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, and integrations Competencies Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills People leadership - ability to coach, give feedback, and develop engineers at varying levels Ability to drive planning, sequencing, and cross-team alignment across a distributed team Attention to detail and commitment to raising and maintaining quality standards for the team Critical thinking and creative probl

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