Lead Technical Services Engineer

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 Lead Technical Services Engineer, you will act as a senior technical authority, mentor, and a critical liaison between clients, Product, and Engineering. You will not only master impact.com’s technology but also guide your peers through their most complex challenges. In addition to leading complex integrations for enterprise clients, you will serve as the primary escalation point for the team, architecting advanced solutions and ensuring that critical issues are resolved with expertise.

You will be a key partner to leadership, helping to shape technical best practices, improve team processes, and drive innovations that improve the platform's scalability and reliability. This role is for a deeply technical expert who is passionate about multiplying their impact by elevating the skills and quality of the entire team.

What You'll Do:

• Lead complex integrations for enterprise clients, creating advanced technical solutions and authoring documentation to ensure their success.
• Own and resolve high-priority escalations from peers and clients, handling critical issues with urgency and implementing tooling or preventive measures to avoid future recurrence.
• Act as a key technical liaison between clients, Product, and Engineering, translating business needs into technical requirements and advocating for platform improvements.
• Mentor, coach, and provide technical guidance to all TSEs, fostering their growth through collaborative problem-solving and by serving as a peer escalation point.
• Innovate to improve platform scalability and reliability by identifying recurring issues, proposing scalable solutions, and leading initiatives to refine team processes.
• Author and maintain advanced troubleshooting documentation and reference materials that serve as a knowledge base for the entire team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Onboarding, Customer Success, and other teams to drive strategic improvements across the entire client lifecycle.
• Develop and lead internal training sessions to scale technical knowledge and best practices across the team and partner organizations.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus approximately 8 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
• Deep domain knowledge of the digital marketing ecosystem, SaaS platforms, and customer-facing technical support or services.
• Proven experience acting as a technical lead, mentor, or senior escalation point within a support or services team.
• Expert-level proficiency with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, REST APIs, FTP, and related tools.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze logs, data, and system behavior to troubleshoot highly complex issues, including writing and optimizing advanced SQL queries.
• Exceptional problem-solving and de-escalation skills, with a talent for navigating ambiguity and architecting creative solutions.
• Clear, confident communication skills, with the ability to act as a liaison and translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to anticipate future challenges, proactively drive improvements, and lead through influence.

Salary Range: $95,000 - $120,000 per year, plus additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive 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.

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Office-only catered lunch every Thursday, a healthy snack bar, and great coffee to keep you fueled 
• Flexible spending accounts and 401(k)
• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses. 

impact.com is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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