A leading digital publishing organization is seeking a Sr WordPress Web Engineer to help advance content experiences across WordPress, React, and GraphQL. This hybrid role focuses on building scalable content workflows, front-end experiences, and API-driven solutions for a high-traffic web platform. This opportunity is for a Sr WordPress Web Engineer. This opportunity is for a Sr Workpress Web Engineer.
***Please no 3rd parties***
About the Opportunity:
Shift: Day shift
Schedule: Monday to Friday (3 days in office)
Hours: Standard business
Setting: Hybrid
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, blocks, post types, taxonomies, and page templates.
Build reusable, accessible React components and page experiences for article, video, live event, and subscription surfaces.
Design, implement, and evolve GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, resolvers, caching, and API contracts.
Integrate WordPress with external services, including content feeds, identity, subscriptions, advertising, analytics, search, and notification systems.
Support production operations by troubleshooting publishing, caching, cron, content sync, and integration issues while partnering with cross-functional teams.
Qualifications:
5+ years of hands-on WordPress engineering experience, including custom plugin and theme development in PHP.
Strong experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, testing, performance, and accessibility.
Strong GraphQL experience, including schema design, resolver implementation, query performance, caching, and API documentation.
Experience running WordPress at scale on a high-traffic platform.
Experience integrating WordPress with REST and GraphQL APIs, scheduled jobs, webhooks, third-party content feeds, and cache layers.
Deep knowledge of WordPress content modeling, including custom post types, custom fields, taxonomies, Gutenberg blocks, publishing workflows, redirects, and search indexing.
Experience debugging production issues across CMS, frontend, API, caching, and external integrations.
Strong understanding of web accessibility, responsive design, SEO fundamentals, Core Web Vitals, and secure development practices.
Ability to communicate clearly with non-engineering partners and write maintainable technical documentation.
Desired Skills:
Experience in media, publishing, streaming, newsroom, or other high-traffic consumer web environments.
Experience with live-streaming or VOD integrations, DRM-protected content, identity and authentication, and subscription or entitlement flows.
Experience with Node.js, build tooling, CI/CD, Docker, cloud services, and observability tooling.
Experience with Elasticsearch or search platforms, CDN and image optimization, ad-tech, analytics, and community or commenting platforms.
Experience supporting mobile teams through GraphQL contracts, mocks, schema introspection, versioning, and integration testing.
Familiarity with performance or load testing and cache invalidation strategies.
