Senior WordPress Engineer — React & GraphQL Lead

Tricon Solutions; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

Tricon Solutions is seeking a Senior WordPress / React / GraphQL Engineer to own and evolve our premier client's digital publishing platform, including WordPress CMS, editorial workflows, React frontends, and GraphQL APIs used by web and mobile clients.

You will collaborate with product, design, editorial, and platform teams to build scalable content models, ensure performance, accessibility, and production ops, and own CI/CD, tests, and observability.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, blocks, post types, taxonomies, editorial workflows, and page templates.
• Build reusable, accessible React components and page experiences for article, video, live event, community, hub, and subscription surfaces.
• Design, implement, document, and evolve GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, resolvers, caching, and API contracts for web and mobile consumers.
• Partner with product, design, editorial, mobile, video, ad-tech, analytics, and platform teams to turn screen-level requirements into scalable content models and APIs.
• Integrate 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.

Skills

WordPress

React

GraphQL

PHP

APIs

WP-CLI

CI/CD

Docker

Node.js

Elasticsearch

Tools

WordPress VIP

Job description

Tricon Solutions is seeking a Senior WordPress / React / GraphQL Engineer to own and evolve our premier client's digital publishing platform, including WordPress CMS, editorial workflows, React frontends, and GraphQL APIs used by web and mobile clients.

You will collaborate with product, design, editorial, and platform teams to build scalable content models, ensure performance, accessibility, and production ops, and own CI/CD, tests, and observability.