Senior WordPress Engineer: GraphQL, Scale, High-Traffic

Millennium-Info-Tech-Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium-Info-Tech-Inc. in New York, NY, seeks a senior WordPress engineer to design, build, and scale WordPress-driven sites and apps. You will own custom plugin and theme development, GraphQL integrations, and performance optimization.

You will collaborate with product and front-end teams, ensure accessibility and security, and contribute to documentation, testing, and deployment pipelines in a fast-paced media-heavy environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress engineering experience, including custom plugin and theme development in PHP.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

WordPress engineering

GraphQL

WordPress at scale

REST API integration

Content modeling (WP)

Debugging production issues

Web accessibility

Technical documentation

High-traffic consumer-web

Live streaming / VOD integration

Tools

Node.js

CI/CD

Docker

Cloud services

Elasticsearch

CDN optimization

Analytics

Observability tooling

Mocks/schema introspection

Job description

Millennium-Info-Tech-Inc. in New York, NY, seeks a senior WordPress engineer to design, build, and scale WordPress-driven sites and apps. You will own custom plugin and theme development, GraphQL integrations, and performance optimization.

You will collaborate with product and front-end teams, ensure accessibility and security, and contribute to documentation, testing, and deployment pipelines in a fast-paced media-heavy environment.