MailerLite
Description
- Role: Technical Lead — Audience Growth at MailerLite.
- Lead an engineering team responsible for signup forms, landing pages, website builders, subscriber imports, preference centers, opt-in flows, and integrations.
- You are expected to be hands-on, not just a people manager: build difficult parts yourself, review code, pair with engineers, mentor, and own production reliability.
- Work closely with Product and Design from discovery through delivery, with end-to-end ownership of performance, quality, monitoring, and incident fixes.
- MailerLite says it serves 1M+ businesses and has a team of 170+ people.
Requirements
- 6+ years building production web applications.
- Strong PHP + Laravel experience — this is probably the biggest technical filter.
- Modern JavaScript; Vue 3 is preferred.
- Technical leadership experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Engineer with lead responsibilities, or equivalent.
- REST APIs, third-party APIs, and OAuth.
- Relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, plus background jobs/queues.
- Product mindset: customer research, challenging requirements, measuring outcomes after launch.
- Excellent English.
- Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote environment.
- 5-hour overlap with CET.
- Nice-to-haves: drag-and-drop/page builders, Meta/social integrations, WordPress plugins, GDPR/double opt-in, bot/abuse protection, AI-powered features or AI-assisted development.
Benefits
- €70,000–€90,000 gross/year.
- Remote-first, globally distributed team.
- International health insurance, with alternative healthcare payout in some countries.
- Company-paid annual retreats.
- 31 vacation days.
- 12 paid sick days.
- 4 paid creative days.
- 12 paid parental days plus paid parental leave.
- $1,000+ annual Joy Budget, increasing over time.
- MacBook and work equipment.
- MailerLite emphasizes autonomy, ownership, stability, and long-term growth.