Technical Lead

MailerLite is one of the fastest-growing email marketing services. We help more than 1 million businesses around the world to keep in touch with their customers. Today we are a team of more than 170 dreamers adventurers and world travelers passionate about what we do and believe in. And we are ready for another talented person to join the party.

Were looking for a Technical Lead for our Audience Growth team. The team owns everything that helps our customers grow their audience: signup forms landing pages and websites subscriber imports preference centers and social integrations. Youll lead the engineers shape the technical direction with your product and design partners and stay close enough to the code to build the hard parts yourself.

Wondering why we think youll love working at MailerLite Here are 6 reasons!

• Youll own the front door of every audience

Every subscriber our customers gain comes through something your team built. Your work directly decides how well creators coaches and small businesses grow and youll see the impact in the numbers.

• Youll grow develop and evolve

Were always looking for new innovative ways to offer value to customers. Youll be learning constantly and trying out new things.

• Youll take ownership

We trust you to work independently and take complete responsibility for your tasks from start to finish.

• Youll have experts on hand

Your teammates with a wide range of different expertise are there to help. Were all about sharing and learning and wed love for you to share your knowledge too!

• Youll pick where you work

We embrace a remote-first culture with a globally distributed team empowering you to choose the environment where youre most productive.

• Youll have stability

We value a stable workplace! MailerLite has been thriving for over 10 years and our year-over-year growth continues to increase. Lets grow together!

• Lead a team of engineers

• Work with the product manager and designer from discovery through delivery

• Own our landing page and website builders signup forms subscriber imports preference centers and opt-in flows

• Build and maintain integrations that bring subscribers in from other platforms

• Keep forms imports and opt-in flows fast reliable and resistant to abuse

• Own your teams areas end to end in production: quality performance monitoring and fixing things when they break

• Set the bar through code review pairing and mentoring and help engineers grow into more ownership

• 6 years building production web applications with strong PHP and Laravel experience

• Solid modern JavaScript ideally Vue 3. Much of this teams work is rich interactive UI such as builders and editors

• Experience leading engineers technically as a tech lead senior engineer with lead duties or similar

• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and working with third-party APIs and OAuth

• Good relational database skills (PostgreSQL preferred) and experience with background jobs and queues

• A product mindset: comfortable joining customer research challenging requirements and measuring results after launch

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Comfort working async in a remote team

• Based in EMEA region

• Nice to have

• Building drag-and-drop editors or page builders

• Integrations with social platforms (e.g. Meta APIs) or WordPress plugin development

• Understanding of consent and opt-in requirements such as GDPR and double opt-in

• Bot and abuse protection for public forms

• Shipping AI-powered features or using AI-assisted development tools in your daily work

• Yearly gross salary range:

• Remote-first culture with the team working remotely from all over the world

• International health insurance provided with coverage in most countries. Monthly healthcare payout available in select countries where coverage is limited

• Company-paid retreats. Once per year we gather for a week in an exotic location to work learn and have fun together

• 31 days of vacation per year. We encourage you to unplug and recharge!

• 12 paid sick days for your physical and mental well-being no doctors note required. Parents can use them to care for their sick children

• 4 creative days. One paid day off per quarter to do something creative and fun

• 12 parental days per year. Enjoy one paid day off each month to treasure time with your children

• Parental leave. Enjoy paid bonding time at 100% of your salary when welcoming a new child into your family through birth or adoption - 3 months for primary caregivers and 1 month for secondary caregivers

• Joy Budget. Annual allowance to spend on what brings you joy starting at $1000 per year and increasing over time

• MacBook and other tools thatll help you to do your job efficiently

Please send in your application on the official application form in order to be considered.