At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a small team to build and scale innovative email marketing features.
- Company: EmailOctopus, a remote-first company trusted by global brands.
- Benefits: Bonus scheme, personal learning budget, wellness allowance, and generous equipment budget.
- Other info: Enjoy regular team meetups in exciting cities like Barcelona and Berlin.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment with daily project ownership.
- Qualifications: Proficiency in modern server-side languages and strong frontend skills required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
About Email Octopus
Email Octopus 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), My SQL, Redis
- Frontend: Vue, SCSS, Storybook
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
- Data: Open Search, Athena
- CI/CD: Git Hub Actions, PHPUnit, Playwright, Sentry
What we're looking for
- Proficiency in a modern server-side language
- Experience with modern Java Script 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...)
