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PHP Software Engineer
Location
South Africa
Posted
19 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
PHP Software Engineer
Dotdigital
• Play a key role in building and maintaining Dotdigital’s marketing websites • Collaborate with talented engineers, product managers, designers, and QA • Deliver high‑performing, visually engaging and secure websites • Engineer solutions across both the front and back‑end • Optimise performance for global audiences • Ensure our websites and integrations integrate seamlessly with the Dotdigital platform
Job Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Parental leave
- Medical benefits
- Paid sick leave
- Dotdigital day
- Share reward
- Wellbeing reward
- Wellbeing Days
- Loyalty reward
- Annual Udemy training allowance
- DEI commitment
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