MSNBC Digital Technology team is looking to deliver high-quality, high-performance experiences across content management and publishing applications
Requirements
- 3–5+ years building WordPress solutions at scale; strong PHP 7/8 fundamentals and deep knowledge of WordPress core (actions/filters, REST API, multisite, custom plugins/themes, Gutenberg/Block Editor)
- Strong React (18+) skills (hooks, context, performance patterns); experience with Next.js (SSR/SSG/ISR)
- Proven experience with headless WordPress (WPGraphQL and/or REST) and Node-based build tooling (Vite/Webpack, Babel, ESLint)
- Track record delivering on high-traffic CMS/news or e-commerce sites with attention to performance, scalability, security, and resiliency
- Proficiency with MySQL (schema design, query optimization); familiarity with Redis, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch helpful
- Comfortable with CI/CD, automated testing, and version control (Git) in collaborative workflows and code review
- Experience integrating CDNs (Cloudflare/Akamai/Fastly), media pipelines (e.g., Cloudinary/Image CDN), analytics, and 3rd-party APIs
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-quality features across a WordPress (PHP) + React stack (e.g., Next.js, Gutenberg blocks)
- Debug effectively across PHP and JS (Query Monitor, WP-CLI, Chrome DevTools, logs) to identify root causes
- Conduct timely, constructive code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
- Design and implement custom plugins, CPTs/taxonomies, block patterns/blocks, and WP-CLI scripts
- Build headless experiences using WPGraphQL/REST; integrate React data layers (React Query/Redux) and SSR/SSG/ISR where appropriate
- Optimize performance and Core Web Vitals via caching layers (object cache Redis/Memcached, page cache, CDN), query tuning, asset splitting, and image strategies (lazy-load, responsive)
- Enforce security best practices (capabilities/roles, nonces, sanitization/escaping, prepared statements, dependency hygiene)
Other
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders; gives and receives feedback effectively
- Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week
- Company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks
- 3–5+ years of experience
- Preferred: WordPress VIP experience, Internationalization, and SEO schema/structured data
