Backend Developer in Leeds

Salary

£37,500 – £48,000 depending on skills and experience

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
• Comprehensive private health insurance
• 5% company pension scheme
• Access to your own financial coach
• Free on‑site gym
• Hybrid working
• An award‑winning office
• Your birthday off
• Regular socials and summer conference 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 & Laravel. 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.

Requirements:

• 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 custom modules
• 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