Sr. Wordpress Engineer (Remote - PHP, Graphql, React)

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Senior WordPress / GraphQL Engineer

Location: India - Remote (Lucknow or Nagpur preferred )

Type: Full-time with Benefits

Experience: 7+ years

Role Overview :-

We are looking for a Senior WordPress / GraphQL Engineer with deep hands-on WordPress development experience to build and support a large-scale digital publishing platform for a premier US client.WordPress is the core skill for this position. The ideal candidate will have strong experience developing custom WordPress solutions using PHP, along with hands-on GraphQL experience and working knowledge of React.js.The engineer will work across WordPress CMS and editorial workflows, APIs consumed by web and mobile applications, and React-based frontend experiences in a high-traffic production environment.

Core 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.
• Support live-event and Live Q&A experiences, including content ingest, scheduling, pre-event/live/post-event states, replay handling, cancellation behavior, and promo placement.
• Own production-quality engineering practices: code review, automated tests, CI/CD, release safety, observability, incident diagnosis, rollback planning, and documentation.
• Use WP-CLI and WordPress VIP tooling to diagnose publishing, caching, cron, content-sync, rewrite, and GraphQL-cache issues.
• Work directly with editorial and operations teams to improve CMS usability without compromising system reliability or site performance.

Required Experience :-

• 7+ 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.

Core Skills :-

WordPress | PHP | GraphQL | React.js | JavaScript | TypeScript | Gutenberg | WordPress Plugin Development | WordPress Theme Development | REST APIs | WP-CLI