Location: Brazil (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Contract (B2B)
Contract Length: 3 months (with potential for extension)
About YLD
Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We're a team of curious, talented people, and we're committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.
We're a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.
About the roleAs 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.
You'll work closely with the client's in-house engineering team on a mix of ongoing Craft CMS feature work and a larger migration from a legacy CMS, with UI/UX rework in scope. The team is collaborative and values direct partnerships over black-box agency arrangements — which is exactly the kind of engagement YLD runs.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1st interview with someone from the Talent team (30–45 mins)
- Technical interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
- Call with Client Partner (30 mins)
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We're an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard.
Skills Required
- Strong PHP development skills
- Production experience on Craft CMS
- Experience migrating content from legacy CMS platforms
- API development experience (REST)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git)
What We Do
With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product. We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training. We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability. We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences
