Software Engineer I (Laravel/PHP)
Engineering
Remote - United States
Description
Position at Ziff Davis Shopping The OpportunityZiff Davis Shopping is looking for a talented Software Engineer I (Laravel/PHP) to join our engineering team and work closely with us to build our marketing technology stack. You’ll play a critical role in maintaining code and building out new features for RetailMeNot and VoucherCodes, with a focus on helping develop the solutions that power our next-generation marketing communications.The right person will be a curious developer with a good grasp of PHP fundamentals, eager to learn how to balance development speed with code quality. You should be passionate about building efficient solutions and be capable of delivering clean, tested code that supports our business goals. Key responsibilities- Learning existing systems and development workflows with support from senior engineers
- Assisting in the development and maintenance of RESTful APIs and services, primarily in PHP/Laravel
- Collaborating with the engineering team to implement technical solutions based on business requirements
- Creating and maintaining responsive email templates (HTML/CSS) for marketing campaigns
- Supporting integrations with MarTech platforms like Braze to facilitate data flow and event triggering
- Building and updating UI features for internal tools and job monitoring dashboards
- Troubleshooting application issues and assisting with root cause analysis to resolve bugs
- Writing clean, testable code and participating in peer code reviews to ensure quality
- 1+ years of commercial development experience with proficiency in PHP (Laravel)
- Basic familiarity with AWS environments or interest in learning cloud infrastructure concepts
- Interest in learning event-driven systems or message brokers (e.g., Kafka)
- Working knowledge of MySQL and an understanding of data processing workflows
- Ability to work within and incrementally improve existing codebases
- Experience with modern frontend tooling such as TypeScript, React or Vue
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS specific to email design or willingness to learn templating engines (e.g., Blade, Liquid)
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with the team