Remote Senior PHP Engineer — Craft CMS (Contract)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 26,433 - 52,866; Full time

Job summary

YLD is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a client team delivering high-traffic digital products using PHP on Craft CMS.

You will migrate a legacy CMS to Craft, partner with in-house engineers and a product designer, and help rework UI/UX for a mid-2026 launch. Remote-first with a collaborative, client-focused culture.

The role emphasizes clean, maintainable code, code reviews, and mentoring teammates as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Strong PHP development experience on Craft CMS.
• Understanding of Craft CMS templating, plugins, and content modeling.
• Experience migrating content from legacy CMS (Epic Server a plus).
• Frontend collaboration with designers to implement UI/UX changes.
• Database design and SQL query optimization.
• REST API development and data exposure.
• CI/CD and Git in a collaborative team environment.
• Comfort with cloud-hosted environments and deployment tooling.
• Good debugging, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

PHP

Craft CMS

UI/UX collaboration

SQL

Tools

Epic Server

Git

CI/CD

REST API

Job description

YLD is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a client team delivering high-traffic digital products using PHP on Craft CMS.

You will migrate a legacy CMS to Craft, partner with in-house engineers and a product designer, and help rework UI/UX for a mid-2026 launch. Remote-first with a collaborative, client-focused culture.

The role emphasizes clean, maintainable code, code reviews, and mentoring teammates as the team grows.