PHP Engineer: Join a Leading Remote Email Marketing Service

MailerLite is one of the fastest-growing email marketing services globally, helping over 1 million businesses connect with their customers. We are a remote-first team of 170+ passionate professionals ready to welcome a talented PHP Engineer to maintain and implement new features across our core products.

Why Work at MailerLite?

• Scaling Challenges: Tackle interesting tasks related to scaling a platform that handles millions of emails daily.
• Growth & Development: Constantly experiment, learn, and evolve as part of an innovative team.
• Ownership Culture: Take full responsibility for your tasks in a focused environment free from micromanagement.
• Expert Collaboration: Work alongside teammates with wide-ranging expertise who are ready to help you grow and share knowledge.
• Remote Flexibility: Choose the environment that maximizes your productivity every day.
• Stability: Join a thriving company with over 10 years of success and continuous year-over-year growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize our existing codebase, which serves hundreds of thousands of users daily.
• Implement high-impact new features focused on delivering maximum value to our users.

Required Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience working with PHP, JavaScript, and HTML.
• Comfortable managing and contributing to large codebases using the latest tools and technologies.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks, specifically VueJS, React, or AngularJS (we utilize VueJS).
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Ability to write and optimize complex queries in SQL.
• Knowledge of Redis and message queues.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean code with comprehensive test coverage and build scalable applications.
• Self-starter with an investigative mindset and strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Must be based in the EMEA region.

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with other languages (NodeJS, Golang, Ruby).
• Knowledge of PHP frameworks (we primarily use Laravel).
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch.

Compensation and Benefits (Remote-First)

Yearly Gross Salary Range: $60,000 – $75,000

• Remote-First Culture: Work remotely from anywhere in the world (must be EMEA based).
• Health & Wellness: International health insurance coverage (or monthly payout where coverage is limited) and 12 paid sick days (no doctor's note required).
• Time Off: 31 days of vacation (including public holidays), plus 4 paid creative days per quarter.
• Parental Support: 12 paid parental days per month, 100% paid parental leave (3 months maternity, 1 month paternity/adoption), and a $1,000 parenting budget.
• Perks: Annual Joy Budget (starting at $1,000), company-paid annual retreats, and provided MacBook/tools.

Team Achievements Highlight

Our team excels in innovative development, having successfully launched a feature-rich drag-and-drop landing page builder, designed effective user onboarding flows based on research, overhauled processing pipelines for massive data scaling, and implemented seamless integrations with platforms like Wix and Canva.