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PHP Software Engineer

Dotdigital|Posted 5 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Backend engineer
Experience in role:2+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    PHP
    MySQL
    RESTful API Design

Location and salary

Remote policy:Remote
Location of job:South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder or permanent resident
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

About Us

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.

The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data silos, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and more.

About the Role

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.

About you

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

We’re proud of our web engineering teams, spanning multiple countries, and we’re committed to building diverse, inclusive, and supportive teams. Whatever makes you unique will help make us unique too - so if this sounds like your next role, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Us

Don’t just take our word for it - hear what your future colleagues have to say about working in our team:

"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.

Interview Process

  • 15 minute screening call
  • 90 minute technical interview
  • 60 minute general interview

Some of Our Global Benefits

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

DEI commitment

As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to equality in all its practices with regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. If you have any additional requirements or adjustments to assist an application then please don't hesitate to contact us and advise us how we can best support you.

About Dotdigital

201-500 employees

About Us

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.

The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data silos, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and more.

Our Tech Stack

Backend

  • Majority C# (dotnet 8 with some Framework)
  • Some NodeJS, some Python for data science, and PHP for ecommerce integrations turned-on flat screen monitor

Frontend

  • Angular 15+ (some older AngularJS)
  • ASP.NET (webapi, some older mvc+webforms which we’re phasing out)
  • TS/ES6/gulp/grunt/node/yarn
  • Sass

Data

  • SQL Server
  • Google BigQuery
  • Azure CosmosDB
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Clickhouse
  • Databricks

Infrastructure

  • Cloud: Majority Azure; some GCP; some AWS
  • Containerized (mostly Linux containers, some Windows containers)
  • Terraform/ARM/IaC
  • Azure Service Bus/Event Hubs
  • RabbitMQ

Tooling

  • Azure DevOps
  • Visual Studio/Rider/VS Code/PyCharm/PhpStorm
  • nUnit/Moq/Robot Framework
  • Elastic Search/Kibana/Prometheus/Grafana
  • Github
  • Copilot

Perks at Dotdigital

Parental leave
Medical benefits
Dotdigital day
Wellbeing reward
Wellbeing days
Loyalty reward
Paid sick leave

Tech Stack

application and data

AngularJS
AngularJS
Sass
Sass
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
PHP
PHP
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
MongoDB
MongoDB
C#
C#
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
.Net Core 2.0
.Net Core 2.0
TypeScript
TypeScript
Kibana
Kibana
Angular
Angular
BigQuery
BigQuery

dev ops

GitHub
GitHub
Pingdom
Pingdom
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Terraform
Terraform
Prometheus
Prometheus
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
VS Code
VS Code
Rider
Rider

business tool

Slack
Slack
Zendesk
Zendesk

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