Senior WordPress, React & GraphQL Engineer (Contract)

Tricon Solutions; Fort Lee (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Tricon Solutions seeks a Senior WordPress/React/GraphQL Engineer in Fort Lee, NJ for a contract engagement. You will own and evolve a premier digital publishing platform, building WordPress themes, React-based frontends, and GraphQL APIs for web and mobile clients.

Responsibilities include design and documentation of schemas, integration with external services, and maintaining high standards for testing, CI/CD, and observability. Strong cross-team collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on WordPress engineering experience.
• Strong GraphQL experience: schema design, resolver implementation, caching and API docs.
• Experience running WordPress at scale, ideally on VIP or similar.
• Experience integrating WordPress with REST and GraphQL APIs and webhooks.
• Deep knowledge of WordPress content modeling and editorial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, blocks, post types, taxonomies, editorial workflows, and templates.
• Build reusable, accessible React components and page experiences for article, video, live events, 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 requirements into scalable models and APIs.
• Integrate WordPress with external platforms and services, including video feeds, identity, subscriptions, analytics, search, CDN tooling, and notifications.
• Support live events and Live Q&A experiences, including ingest, scheduling, and promo placement.
• Own production-grade engineering practices: code review, automated tests, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.
• Use WP-CLI and WordPress VIP tooling to diagnose publishing, caching, cron, content-sync, and GraphQL-cache issues.
• Work with editorial and operations teams to improve CMS usability while preserving reliability and performance.

Skills

WordPress engineering

React

GraphQL

PHP

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

WP-CLI

WordPress VIP tooling

CI/CD

Docker

Elasticsearch

Job description

Tricon Solutions seeks a Senior WordPress/React/GraphQL Engineer in Fort Lee, NJ for a contract engagement. You will own and evolve a premier digital publishing platform, building WordPress themes, React-based frontends, and GraphQL APIs for web and mobile clients.

Responsibilities include design and documentation of schemas, integration with external services, and maintaining high standards for testing, CI/CD, and observability. Strong cross-team collaboration is essential.