[Hiring] Contract PHP Engineer @YLD.com

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you'll join a client team building and evolving digital products for a high-traffic, experience-led organisation. We're looking for someone curious, driven, and enthusiastic — skilled at problem-solving and experienced in delivering clean, maintainable PHP on modern CMS platforms.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Self-motivated, proactive, and always looking for ways to improve;
• A clear communicator, you can explain technical decisions in plain language to non-technical stakeholders;
• Detail-oriented without losing sight of delivery;
• Comfortable working across a small, collaborative team that includes both YLD and client engineers;
• Experienced working in agile, iterative environments with real production stakes;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

Benefits

• Remote-first working environment;
• Flexible working and work–life balance as standard.

Company Description

We're a software engineering and design consultancy, helping your team succeed by fostering a progressive culture of learning.