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Wordpress Web Engineer

New York, NY, US • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 3 days ago

Contract W2

12 Months

No Travel Required

On-site

Depends on Experience

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Skills

PHP
WCAG
WordPress
DRM

Summary

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: 10501519
Position Id: 9094344
Posted 3 days ago

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