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The role will build reliable content experiences while supporting live video, subscriptions and entitlements, third-party integrations, performance, accessibility, and production operations.\n\nCore responsibilities\n\nDevelop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, blocks, post types, taxonomies, editorial workflows, and page templates.\nBuild reusable, accessible React components and page experiences for article, video, live event, community, hub, and subscription surfaces.\nDesign, implement, document, and evolve GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, resolvers, caching, and API contracts for web and mobile consumers.\nPartner with product, design, editorial, mobile, video, ad-tech, analytics, and platform teams to turn screen-level requirements into scalable content models and APIs.\nIntegrate WordPress with external platforms and services, including video/content feeds, identity and entitlement services, comments/community, subscriptions, advertising, analytics, search, image/CDN tooling, and email/notification systems.\nSupport live-event and Live Q&A experiences, including content ingest, scheduling, pre-event/live/post-event states, replay handling, cancellation behavior, and promo placement.\nOwn production-quality engineering practices: code review, automated tests, CI/CD, release safety, observability, incident diagnosis, rollback planning, and documentation.\nUse WP-CLI and WordPress VIP tooling to diagnose publishing, caching, cron, content-sync, rewrite, and GraphQL-cache issues.\nWork directly with editorial and operations teams to improve CMS usability without compromising system reliability or site performance.\n\nRequired experience\n\n5+ years of hands-on WordPress engineering experience, including custom plugin and theme development in PHP.\nStrong React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript experience, including component architecture, state/data loading, testing, performance, and accessibility.\nStrong GraphQL experience: schema design, resolver implementation, query performance, caching, authorization, backward-compatible evolution, and API documentation.\nExperience running WordPress at scale, ideally on WordPress VIP or a comparable managed, high-traffic platform.\nExperience integrating WordPress with REST and GraphQL APIs, scheduled jobs/cron, webhooks, third-party content feeds, and cache layers.\nDeep knowledge of WordPress content modeling: custom post types, custom fields/meta, taxonomies, Gutenberg blocks, revision/publishing workflows, redirects, and search/indexing.\nExperience debugging production issues across CMS, frontend, API, caching, and external integrations.\nStrong understanding of web accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, SEO fundamentals, Core Web Vitals, and secure development practices.\nAbility to communicate clearly with non-engineering partners and write maintainable technical documentation.\n\nStrongly preferred\n\nMedia, publishing, streaming, newsroom, or other high-traffic consumer-web experience.\nLive-streaming or VOD integrations, DRM-protected content, identity/authentication, and subscription/entitlement flows.\nExperience with Node.js, build tooling, CI/CD, Docker, cloud services, and observability tooling.\nExperience with Elasticsearch/search, CDN/image optimization, ad-tech, analytics, and community/commenting platforms.\nExperience supporting mobile teams through GraphQL contracts, mocks/schema introspection, versioning, and integration testing.\nFamiliarity with performance/load testing and cache invalidation strategies.","company":"Tricon Solutions","rawCompany":"tricon solutions","city":"Englewood Cliffs","state":"NJ","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-16T10:35:13.502Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior WordPress / React / GraphQL Engineer","description":"Senior WordPress / React / GraphQL Engineer\n\nLocation: Englewood Cliffs, NJ\n\nType: Contract (W2/C2C)\n\nRole purpose\n\nOwn and evolve our premier client//'s digital publishing platform: WordPress CMS and editorial workflows, React-based frontend experiences, and GraphQL APIs consumed by web and mobile clients. 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