Backend Developer

Backend Developer – Craft CMS

Location: Leeds (3 days per week onsite)
Salary: Up to £48,000 (DOE) + Discretionary Bonus

Are you a backend developer with a passion for building scalable, user-friendly CMS-driven websites? Do you thrive in a fast-paced agency environment, delivering impactful digital solutions for well-known brands? This role offers the chance to work with a modern PHP stack, specialising in Craft CMS, while developing your career within an employee-owned, B-Corp certified business that values creativity, collaboration, and long-term growth.

About the role:
As a Backend Developer, you’ll play a central role in shaping content models, implementing logical control panel user interfaces, and ensuring a seamless authoring experience for clients. You’ll collaborate with designers, frontend developers, and project managers to deliver websites that are both technically robust and beautifully crafted.

The position involves working across multiple client projects, contributing to accurate project scoping, providing technical specifications, and delivering features reliably and on time. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to the adoption of new technologies within the team, with progression supported by a dedicated People Development & Culture function.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement content structures and control panel interfaces within Craft CMS
• Map backend content models to frontend requirements, ensuring seamless delivery
• Contribute to technical specifications and project cost estimates
• Manage multiple client projects, maintaining pace and quality across deliverables
• Collaborate with the development team to introduce and adopt new technologies
• Support project teams by delivering reliable, maintainable, and efficient code

What you’ll bring:

Essential:

• 3+ years of digital agency experience
• Strong PHP development skills
• Proven Craft CMS expertise (control panel configuration, templating, and content modelling)
• Experience designing and structuring CMS content to meet business requirements
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Desirable:

• Experience extending Craft CMS with custom modules using the Yii framework
• Knowledge of wider technologies including Laravel, Vue.js, and Tailwind CSS
• Comfortable engaging with clients where required

About you:

• You’re hands-on, detail-oriented, and passionate about building intuitive CMS solutions
• You enjoy working in a collaborative, social team environment where knowledge sharing is valued
• You thrive in an agency setting and are comfortable balancing multiple projects
• You’re keen to grow your technical skills and contribute to a forward-thinking development culture

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Company performance-linked bonus scheme
• Comprehensive private health insurance
• 5% company pension scheme
• Access to your own financial coach
• Mental health support
• Free on-site gym
• Structured development & progression pathways
• Your birthday off

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.