PHP Software Engineer Product & Technology • South Africa •

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, especially within large, multi-server environments
• 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 :

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

Some of Our Global Benefits

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.

Legal statement

No agencies / recruiters please. We are only accepting applications directly from the applicants. If you are a recruiter, please refrain from reaching out to our staff about this position. Anything contrary will be treated as unsolicited approach under the applicable data protection law.

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