Backend Developer

Hours and location

This is a full-time role based in Leeds, UK. We offer hybrid working and flexible hours to everyone in the team, but this is not a fully remote opportunity.

Benefits package

As part of our commitment to making Engage a great place to work, we’ve built a comprehensive benefits package that fuels our thriving culture and delivers an exceptional, well-rounded employee experience. Some of our most popular perks are:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (rising after 5 years)
  
• Company Performance linked bonus scheme (this is depending on the business’ performance and is not a contractual benefit)
• Comprehensive Private Health Insurance
• 5% company pension scheme
• Access to your own financial coach
• A company culture that promotes work-life balance
• Access to mental health support
• Free on-site gym
• Structured personal development and progression facilitated by our People Development and Culture Team
• An award-winning office designed for hybrid working
• Your birthday off
• Regular socials, epic Summer parties and more…

What we’re looking for

We’re expanding our team and are looking for a developer who enjoys working on marketing websites and has experience with Craft CMS. You’ll plan and implement logical and intuitive control panel user interfaces, always considering the author experience. Capable of mapping these content models to the specific front-end requirements, you’ll play a key role in our web projects.

You’ll have:

• At least 3 years of digital agency experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of PHP
• Experienced in reviewing data requirements, identifying structure and defining suitable CMS sections and fields
• Confident working with Craft CMS; from the control panel through to templating
• The ability to manage multiple projects across various fast-paced client accounts

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to accurate cost estimates, and independently provide accurate estimates against retainer work and smaller projects
• Contribute to formal project technical specifications
• Reliably and efficiently progress on assigned work, delivering features effectively and on time
• Contribute to the discovery and adoption of new technologies amongst the team

Bonus points for any experience:

• Extending Craft with custom modules, using the underlying Yii framework
• The rest of our stack, such as; Laravel, Vue.js and Tailwind CSS

A bit about us

Established in 2007 we’ve earned a reputation for consistently delivering world-class digital products and strategies. We call this Attention to digital™

We also have a strong sense of wanting to do the right thing - not just in digital, but our impact on the world too. That’s why we’re proud to be a Certified B Corporation™

Want to get to know us a little better? Why not take a tour of our office, meet the team or browse some of our work and case studies.