Wordpress Web Engineer Job at American IT Systems, New York, NY

  • American IT Systems
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description:

  • 5+ 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.

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