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# WordPress Web Engineer || Contract Position

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Web Development, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Web Applications, Web Engineering, WordPress, ReactJS, Graphql, Web Technologies
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usd1d3d41153962d964c908c5d08cbb64f

## About the Role

We are looking for a strong hands-on Web Engineer with deep experience in WordPress CMS, custom WordPress development, GraphQL, and React.
The primary focus is on WordPress and GraphQL. Candidates should have recent, hands-on development experience and be comfortable building and enhancing modern web applications.
Candidate Profile

 * Strong hands-on Web Engineering background
 * Excellent WordPress + GraphQL experience is the priority
 * React experience is required but secondary
 * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
 * Experience working in modern web development environments
 * Architecture-level breadth is not the priority; we are primarily looking for a hands-on engineer

Key Requirements

 * WordPress 50%

 * Strong and recent hands-on experience with WordPress CMS
 * Custom WordPress development and customization
 * Experience with the latest WordPress versions
 * Strong understanding of WordPress architecture, themes, plugins, and integrations
 * Experience developing and maintaining production-level WordPress websites
 * GraphQL 35%

 * Strong hands-on GraphQL development experience
 * Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs
 * Experience with GraphQL queries, mutations, schemas, and integrations
 * Strong understanding of GraphQL-based application development
 * Candidates with only API consumption/exposure are not preferred
 * React 15%

 * Hands-on experience with React
 * Experience building and maintaining React-based web components/applications
 * Ability to integrate React with WordPress and modern web technologies



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