WordPress Developer Job at Acunor, New York, NY

  • Acunor
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Salary: $69,000 - 109,000 per year Requirements:

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on WordPress development.
  • Strong PHP skills and experience building custom WordPress plugins and themes.
  • Hands-on experience with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Deep GraphQL experience, including API integration and optimization.
  • Experience with headless or decoupled WordPress architectures and integrating REST/GraphQL APIs with third-party services.
  • Understanding of WordPress content modeling, including Gutenberg, custom post types, custom fields/meta, taxonomies, and publishing workflows.
  • Experience supporting scalable, high-traffic production applications.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization abilities.
  • Knowledge of responsive design, accessibility, SEO, Core Web Vitals, caching, and secure development practices.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: Experience with WordPress VIP or similar enterprise platforms, WPGraphQL, or large-scale publishing, media, news, or other content-heavy platforms.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and improve enterprise-scale WordPress applications and content platforms.
  • Build custom WordPress plugins, themes, Gutenberg blocks, post types, fields, and taxonomies using PHP.
  • Develop responsive frontend applications with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
  • Design and integrate GraphQL APIs between WordPress and React applications, including schemas, resolvers, query optimization, caching, authorization, and API evolution.
  • Develop and support headless or decoupled WordPress architectures.
  • Integrate WordPress with APIs, webhooks, content feeds, scheduled jobs, search and indexing tools, and caching layers.
  • Support complex content management and editorial publishing workflows.
  • Troubleshoot production issues across WordPress, PHP, React, GraphQL, caching, and external integrations.
  • Improve scalability, performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and accessibility in line with WCAG.
  • Collaborate with product, design, editorial, engineering, and other technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technologies:
  • API
  • CMS
  • Frontend
  • GraphQL
  • Support
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • REST
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Web
  • WordPress

More:

We are seeking a Senior WordPress Full Stack Engineer to build and support scalable, high-traffic digital content platforms, working across CMS, frontend, APIs, integrations, caching, performance, and production environments. Our required technical stack is WordPress, PHP, React, and GraphQL. The role is based in New York City and follows a hybrid schedule with three onsite days per week. Candidates must be available for an in-person interview.

last updated 40 week of 2026

Job Tags

Full time, 3 days per week

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