Wordpress Web Engineer

About the role

WordPress Web Engineer based in New York City, NY. The role requires 5+ years of hands‑on WordPress engineering experience, including custom plugin and theme development in PHP, strong React/JavaScript/TypeScript skills, GraphQL expertise, and experience running WordPress at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress engineering experience, including custom plugin and theme development in PHP.
• Strong React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript experience, including component architecture, state/data loading, testing, performance, and accessibility.
• Strong GraphQL experience: schema design, resolver implementation, query performance, caching, authorization, backward-compatible evolution, and API documentation.
• Experience running WordPress at scale, ideally on WordPress VIP or a comparable managed, high-traffic platform.
• Experience integrating WordPress with REST and GraphQL APIs, scheduled jobs/cron, webhooks, third-party content feeds, and cache layers.
• Deep knowledge of WordPress content modeling: custom post types, custom fields/meta, taxonomies, Gutenberg blocks, revision/publishing workflows, redirects, and search/indexing.
• Experience debugging production issues across CMS, frontend, API, caching, and external integrations.
• Strong understanding of web accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, SEO fundamentals, Core Web Vitals, and secure development practices.
• Ability to communicate clearly with non-engineering partners and write maintainable technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Media, publishing, streaming, newsroom, or other high-traffic consumer-web experience.
• Live-streaming or VOD integrations, DRM-protected content, identity/authentication, and subscription/entitlement flows.
• Experience with Node.js, build tooling, CI/CD, Docker, cloud services, and observability tooling.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/search, CDN/image optimization, ad-tech, analytics, and community/commenting platforms.
• Experience supporting mobile teams through GraphQL contracts, mocks/schema introspection, versioning, and integration testing.
• Familiarity with performance/load testing and cache invalidation strategies.