At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.
Join Skillsoft’s growing internal engineering team as a foundational developer helping build out in-house ownership of skillsoft.com — a high-traffic, multi-language Craft CMS 5 platform with deep integrations into Stripe, Salesforce, and learning content APIs. You’ll have real influence over development practices, tooling, and technical direction as we invest in our web platform. This is a chance to shape how a platform serving millions of learners worldwide is built, not just maintained.
As part of a small, collaborative team, you will help establish internal development workflows and practices while maintaining and extending the platform. You will work closely with a managed hosting provider for infrastructure operations, and coordinate with marketing and business stakeholders to translate demand-generation and content strategy goals into technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Backend:
- Maintain and extend 4 custom Yii 2 modules, primarily the SignUp module (Stripe payments, Salesforce CRM, PeopleSoft, PMP voucher fulfillment) and the Utility/Greenhouse modules
- Manage Craft CMS project config, plugin updates, and content modeling
- Build and maintain REST API endpoints via Element API
- Write and manage database migrations
- Monitor and troubleshoot scheduled cron scripts
- Handle Stripe webhook processing, signature verification, event logging, retry logic
- Coordinate with managed hosting provider on environment configuration, deployments, and infrastructure troubleshooting
Frontend:
- Build and maintain Vue 2 components and Vuex state management
- Own the SCSS architecture
- Manage the Vite build pipeline (JS entry bundles, SVG sprite generation, SCSS compilation)
- Develop Twig templates, Neo block templates, partials, layouts, macros
- Ensure responsive design, performance (Core Web Vitals), and accessibility across 5 language sites
- Own and maintain the Craft localization architecture across all language sites, including field translatability, locale-specific asset management, and Neo/Matrix block configuration
Process & Operations:
- Own and manage the CI/CD deployment pipeline, including evaluating and maintaining deployment tooling
- Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture decisions, environment setup guides, and operational runbooks
- Collaborate with marketing, content, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Participate in knowledge transfer sessions and build internal institutional knowledge of the codebase and integrations
Requirements
- 5+ years full-stack web development with PHP
- 2+ years with Craft CMS, or strong experience with Yii 2 / Laravel plus willingness to learn Craft quickly
- Production experience with Vue.js (Vue 2; Vue 3 migration experience a plus)
- Strong SCSS/CSS skills — experience with a design system methodology (Atomic, BEM, ITCSS)
- Stripe API experience — checkout flows, webhooks, subscription management
- Comfortable with MySQL/MariaDB — schema design, migrations, query optimization
- REST API experience — both consuming third-party APIs and building endpoints
- Git fluency — branching strategies, merge conflict resolution, multi-environment workflows
- CI/CD pipeline ownership — experience managing deployment pipelines and release workflows (e.g., Buddy, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Multi-site/multi-locale CMS experience — managing content, fields, and assets across localized sites
- Self-directed — able to prioritize, make technical decisions, and deliver without daily oversight
- Strong communication skills — able to collaborate with non-technical stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical work
Strong Preferences
- Experience with Vite or Webpack build tooling
- AWS familiarity (S3, CloudFront, EC2 basics)
- Redis caching and session management
- Twig or similar server-side templating (Blade, Jinja)
- Experience working with managed hosting providers and coordinating on infrastructure and environment management
- Technical documentation skills — ability to create and maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and onboarding guides
- Marketing automation platform integration experience
Nice-to-Haves
- Salesforce API integration
- Cypress or similar e2e testing
- js or media player customization
- Bootstrap migration / removal experience
- Accessibility auditing (WCAG 2.1)
- Fractal or Storybook pattern library experience
- Experience with CMS platform migrations (e.g., Craft to Optimizely, WordPress to Craft, etc.)
- GA4 analytics implementation and maintenance
- Consent management platform experience (e.g., Ethyca, OneTrust)
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
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What the Team is Saying
Skillsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Skillsoft ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Skillsoft’s compensation is supported by employee feedback around market-rate pay, bonus opportunities, benefits and total rewards. The company pairs compensation with flexibility, learning access and career development programs that employees describe as part of the overall value of working there.
- Market-aligned pay and bonus opportunities: Employees describe Skillsoft’s compensation as competitive, especially in roles with bonus potential. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite “salary plus bonus potential” as market rate, quarterly bonus access in sales and a strong compensation plan. A marketing employee cited “great pay,” while a solution design architect described Skillsoft as offering a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package.” (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Performance-based rewards: Skillsoft employees point to bonus opportunities as part of the company’s rewards approach. A software engineer said their bonus was “excellent,” while sales employees cite quarterly bonus access as part of their compensation package.
- Benefits as part of total rewards: Skillsoft’s total rewards are also supported by employee comments about health benefits, insurance benefits, flexible time off, remote work and work-life balance. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite health benefits and insurance benefits as strengths, while other employees highlight great benefits, remote-first work and flexibility as part of the employee experience. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Growth and learning as added value: Skillsoft’s rewards approach is connected to its employee growth culture. The company provides employees with access to Percipio, Aspire Journeys, role-based pathways, instructor-led training, coaching and CAISY® simulations. Employees describe Skillsoft as a place with “continuous learning opportunities across the tech stack” and “no better place to learn and grow.”
● External signals:
○ Compensation and bonus: Employees on external review sites cite market-rate salary plus bonus potential, quarterly bonus access in sales, a strong compensation plan, “great pay” and an “excellent” bonus as compensation strengths. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
○ Total rewards: Employees on external review sites describe Skillsoft as offering “great benefits,” a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package” and benefits that support work-life balance, flexibility and employee growth. (Glassdoor)
○ Health and insurance: Employees on external review sites cite health benefits, insurance benefits and good health plans as strengths of Skillsoft’s employee experience. Mental health benefits are also listed among Skillsoft’s employee benefits. (Comparably)
○ Flexibility as a reward: Employees on external review sites connect rewards not only to pay, but also to remote work, flexible hours, flexible time off, independence and management that avoids micromanaging. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
Bottom line: Skillsoft supports competitive pay through market-rate compensation, bonus opportunities and a broader total rewards experience that includes benefits, flexibility and career development.
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What We Do
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
Why Work With Us
We help the world's biggest companies build better workforces — and we invest just as much in our own people. Learning new skills is a core part of your job here. We're fully remote, spread across the globe, and united by a shared belief that learning changes careers.
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