PHP Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer in our marketing and ecommerce integrations team, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining Dotdigital's marketing websites. These sites are the public face of our business, so your work will directly influence how customers, prospects and partners experience us online.

The role will also give you exposure to our ecommerce integrations (Magento, WooCommerce, Shopware, Zapier and more). You'll collaborate with talented engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver high-performing, visually engaging and secure websites. This means engineering solutions across both the front and back-end, optimising performance for global audiences, and ensuring our websites and integrations integrate seamlessly with the Dotdigital platform.

We're adopting AI tools in our SDLC where they make sense. Sometimes with huge success, and sometimes with resounding failure - but we're excited about the future.

Here are the skills and experiences we're looking for:

• Solid, modern PHP skills
• JavaScript (frameworks like Angular, Vue, or React are a bonus)
• Proven experience developing custom WordPress themes and plugins
• Expertise in SASS or another CSS preprocessor (writing, organising and refactoring performant CSS)
• Good grasp of website architecture, UX/UI best practices, and front-end performance optimisation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps experience is a plus)
• Proficiency in git, code reviews, and collaborative agile processes (scrum, stand-ups, planning)
• Skilled in debugging and refactoring across front-end and back-end codebases
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Bonus experience with:

• Node.js and Azure Functions
• Composer, Docker, Nginx, Webpack, Gulp
• SEO and accessibility best practices
• PHPStorm or similar IDEs

• Medical benefits
• Paid sick leave
• Dotdigital day
• Share reward
• Wellbeing reward
• Wellbeing Days
• Loyalty reward
• Annual Udemy training allowance

The Company: Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work. At Dotdigital, collaboration and curiosity pave the way for meaningful connections and learning opportunities with diverse peers. Our work environment encourages knowledge sharing, fosters exploration, and cherishes creative ideas. Combined, these guide us towards a shared vision in which brands around the world exceed customer expectations through the adoption of responsible marketing practices., "Working at Dotdigital is a fulfilling experience. The job's nature and flexibility, combined with strong ethics, create a fantastic work environment. The camaraderie within the team is outstanding, ensuring you're never working alone - truly a great company with great people." Unarine - Integrations Engineer About the team We're remote! Our product and technical teams are currently based in the UK, Poland, and South Africa and our 180+ team members mostly work from home. We do make office and co-working spaces available, but that choice is entirely up to you. We're very much in touch with each other via Slack and Zoom and have a great collaborative culture. To top up our social batteries, we meet up quarterly in person (we have a meetup per country) and work together for a day, have some food and drink, and have fun. Tens of thousands of people use our software every day and we're proud that they chose to use our platform, and we're proud of what they achieve with it. Whether you've worked with something at this scale, and can bring your experience; or whether you're keen to try the next step up in your career - come and join us.