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WordPress Web Engineer, onsite in New York City, NY- Contract

New York City, NY, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago

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Contract Independent

6 Months

On-site

$50 - $60/hr

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Skills

WordPress
API
Analytics
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
JavaScript
React.js
PHP
Node.js
Media
GraphQL
Elasticsearch
TypeScript
Technical Writing
Modeling
Integration Testing
Data Loading
Caching
VOD
WCAG
Workflow
cron
Docker
Debugging

Summary

Job Title: WordPress Web Engineer, onsite in New York City, NY- Contract

Job Description:

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.

Strongly preferred

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.

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Dice Id: 10217521
Position Id: 9082885
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