Senior WordPress / GraphQL Engineer

Location: India — Lucknow or Nagpur preferred

Type: Full-time with Benefits

Experience: 6+ 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

- 6+ 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

About Tricon

Tricon is a technology and talent solutions organization supporting clients across the United States and India. Our teams work on technology initiatives for enterprise clients across digital platforms, application development, data, cloud, and emerging technologies.

This position will be employed through our India operations and provides an opportunity to work with global teams on large-scale, production technology platforms.

Employee Benefits – India

Our full time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) in accordance with applicable regulations.
- Gratuity benefits as per applicable statutory provisions and eligibility.
- Group Health Insurance coverage.
- Paid Privilege/Earned Leave and Sick Leave in accordance with company policy.
- Bereavement Leave.
- Paid company and public holidays as per the applicable holiday calendar.
- Statutory benefits and contributions as applicable.
- Opportunity to work with global teams and enterprise clients on high-impact technology projects.
- Long-term full-time employment with opportunities for qualified growth.

Employment and benefits are subject to applicable company policies and statutory eligibility requirements.

📌 Sr Wordpress / GraphQL Engineer (Lucknow)
🏢 Tricon Solutions
📍 Lucknow