Senior PHP Developer

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Lead significant technology initiatives and mentor junior engineers while contributing to MotorK's transformation into an AI-native company.

MotorK is Europe’s leading sales and marketing technology company for the automotive industry. Our mission: empower manufacturers and dealerships to sell more through innovative, cloud-based solutions that deliver the best digital customer experience.

Today, we serve 90% of Europe’s automotive manufacturers - and we’re scaling fast. To fuel our growth, we’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our WebSpark team and play a pivotal role in shaping our technical direction.

This role is at the intersection of front-end and back-end engineering, with a strong focus on the WordPress ecosystem. You’ll work on high-impact initiatives, leading projects from concept to deployment, and ensuring that our platform is fast, scalable, and future-ready. Along the way, you’ll have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers, influence architectural decisions, and contribute to MotorK’s transformation into an AI-native company.

What you’ll do

  • Lead significant technology initiatives from design to deployment.
  • Work across the stack: from front-end (CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Tailwind, Alpine) to back-end (PHP, Laravel).
  • Leverage and extend the WordPress ecosystem (themes, plugins, core).
  • Build scalable, containerized systems using Docker and modern cloud infrastructures.
  • Design, query, and optimize relational databases.
  • Champion DevOps practices: automation, CI/CD, and system reliability.
  • Share knowledge, mentor junior engineers, and elevate the team’s engineering standards.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

  • Proven expertise in the WordPress ecosystem.
  • Strong front-end development skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Tailwind, Alpine.
  • Solid back-end experience with PHP and frameworks like Laravel.
  • Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration.
  • Strong foundation in database design and management.
  • Experience with cloud services and infrastructures.
  • A DevOps mindset with focus on automation and CI/CD.
  • Keen eye for detail and commitment to writing clean, efficient code.

Why join us

  • Play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of a fast-growing tech company.
  • Build and deliver solutions used by some of the biggest automotive players in Europe.
  • Collaborate with diverse, international teams across Europe.
  • A culture of innovation, ownership, and growth.
  • Be part of MotorK’s AI-native transformation and help spark the future of automotive.

If you’re ready to combine deep technical expertise with real impact, and want to help us build the digital backbone of the automotive industry—we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

Working pattern and location

  • 40 hours per week, permanent contract 
  • Monday – Friday

Benefits

  • Company benefits including meal vouchers, discounts on famous brands
  • Internal training paths and support with external education
  • Diverse and dynamic environment, with plenty of opportunity to grow and make an impact

What you can expect from the recruitment process: 

  1. HR interview
  2. Technical interview
  3. Hiring manager interview
  4. C-level interview 

MotorK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any kind. Our company is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at MotorK are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, age, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Education Stipend: Internal training paths and support with external education
  • Free Meals & Snacks: Company benefits including meal vouchers, discounts on famous brands

Founded in 2010, MotorK is an international company focused on sales and marketing for the car industry and has quickly become one of the most important players in the digital automotive arena. Started in Italy, it has rapidly expanded its business in Spain, France, UK and Germany and is now entering other European and extra-European markets. With a unique mix of digital knowledge, online marketing expertise and strong technological background, MotorK has developed and consolidated a broad offering of products and services for the automotive industry such as DriveK, DealerK and Internet Motors. The company has now more than 200 people in Europe. DriveK is the benchmark in Europe for anyone who is looking for the car that is just right for his needs. The site provides vast amounts of data on over 5,000 car models and equipment, in order to compare, configure and select the right car, putting the user in contact with the dealer who can give the most attractive quote. DealerK is SaaS platform for car dealers: a turnkey solution that guides dealers along the road of digital innovation, a portfolio of products and services designed to deal with all the challenges of a modern dealer. Dealerk is also certified as Google Premium Partner. Internet Motors is an event dedicated to the discovery of the best practices within online marketing of automobile products. Started as a local event, it has become an international venue appealing to the whole automotive sector: suppliers, dealers, car manufacturers, industry players and publishers. In March 2017 the company announced a $10M round of initial funding (Series A) led by two global venture capital firms, the highest raised to date for a technology company originating in Italy. MotorK is already using this funding to bolster its international team and support significant worldwide expansion: so we are looking for brilliant people willing to join our team.We are always looking for brilliant people willing to join our team: Software developers with strong background in online technologies, server side Java (grails is better!) Visual designers, Frontend developers and UX experts System administrators with competencies on linux, mysql, php, java, inclined to a strict interaction with developers team Digital Marketing experts What can you expect from us? A 3000 square meters office with a nice kitchen, a lounge area and a theater Interesting Tech Talks Personal and professional growth Possibility to contribute to open source projects (Our headquarters currently hosts Milan WordPress Meetup) English courses with native speakers A funny and international team Competitive salary

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