Senior Full Stack Developer

About EmailOctopus

EmailOctopus is a simple, intuitive and affordable email marketing platform trusted by global companies such as Jaguar Land Rover and local names like Outbreak Festival and Kendall Calling. We're a small, remote-first team making a big impact - helping our users send over 10 billion emails a year.

The role

You’ll join a 6-person product development team, working across our modern Symfony and Vue-based platform. You'll help architect, build and scale new features, while improving the robustness of our high-volume email delivery infrastructure. Working in a lean team, you’ll have real autonomy, input and influence over what we build and how we build it.

You’ll contribute to key projects like improving our drag-and-drop email editor, scaling our analytics infrastructure or refreshing our automation builder. We ship every day, and you’ll take ownership of projects from design to deployment.

Tech stack

• Backend: PHP (Symfony), MySQL, Redis
• Frontend: Vue, SCSS, Storybook
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
• Data: OpenSearch, Athena
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, PHPUnit, Playwright, Sentry

What we’re looking for

• Proficiency in a modern server-side language
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks
• Strong frontend skills
• Passion for clean, tested, maintainable code
• Self-motivated and comfortable with autonomy
• UK-based with the right to work

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Symfony or Laravel
• Familiarity with AWS and Docker
• Experience with high-volume systems or email infrastructure

Benefits

• Bonus scheme (up to 15% of salary)
• £1,000 annual personal learning budget
• Generous equipment budget
• £50/month wellness allowance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Regular team meetups (Barcelona, Berlin, London…)