Contract PHP Engineer, Craft CMS

🕒 June 3

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

YLD

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

Software Development • Consultancy • Fintech

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy that helps businesses succeed by fostering a progressive culture of learning. The company specializes in software engineering, digital product design, and data science, with expertise in modernizing practices and software using technologies like Node. js, React. js, Kubernetes, and React Native. YLD also emphasizes open-source development, community engagement, and training to empower engineering teams. The company serves a diverse range of industries including energy, fintech, and Web3, and runs events to support tech communities. YLD has offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto.

📋 Description

• Building and maintaining features on a production Craft CMS platform, with consistent commits and a short feedback loop; • Contributing to the migration of a legacy CMS onto Craft, including UI/UX rework, targeting mid-2026 launch; • Working closely with client engineers and a product designer, collaborating on engineering initiatives and keeping each other sharp; • Mentoring teammates and sharing knowledge across the team to accelerate growth; • Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to the wider team; • Maintaining production quality and monitoring in line with SLAs; • Using good judgement about where emerging tools (including AI) genuinely improve the work.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong PHP development skills, with production experience on Craft CMS; • Solid understanding of the Craft CMS templating system, plugin ecosystem, and content modelling; • Experience migrating content from legacy CMS platforms: familiarity with Epic Server or similar is a plus; • Frontend competence: working with designers to implement UI/UX rework, including responsive design and accessibility; • Database design and query optimisation (relational databases; SQL Server experience useful); • API development (REST), with an understanding of how CMS platforms expose and consume data; • CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git) in a team environment; • Comfortable with cloud-hosted environments and standard deployment tooling; • Monitoring and performance awareness: you keep an eye on things in production; • You stay calm when debugging live issues and communicate clearly about what's happening.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options • Flexible working hours