Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We build and maintain a consumer-facing web platform built as a hybrid/headless architecture: WordPress acts as a Content & API engine (not just a CMS), exposing structured data through a versioned REST API, while a modern Vue 3 front end consumes it. Around this sits a fleet of embedded Vue micro-apps (product finders, dealer/contractor locators, savings calculators, site search) and a Laravel service layer.
As a mid-level developer, you'll own well-scoped features end to end — across the "heavy" PHP/OOP backend and the fast, reactive JS frontend — with support from senior teammates on the bigger architectural calls.
*Spanish (B2 minimum) is required for this role.
What you'll do- Build and maintain features across the stack: Vue 3 + TypeScript front ends and the PHP/WordPress/Laravel back ends that power them.
- Work within a custom, OOP-based WordPress plugin architecture (abstract controllers, route handlers, factories, traits).
- Develop and evolve the versioned REST API, including the ongoing v4 → v5 migration (alias/override patterns) without breaking existing consumers.
- Develop and integrate standalone Vue apps (Vite-built) into WordPress themes and plugins; build reusable components in isolation with Storybook.
- Help keep the API healthy and observable — health checks, error tracking, and graceful degradation when external services fail.
- Work inside our Docker Compose environment (Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis) and ship through CI/CD pipelines to Azure.
- Keep things healthy: type safety (vue-tsc), linting/formatting (ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint), performance (lazy loading, Core Web Vitals), and accessibility.
- Take part in code reviews, fix bugs, and steadily expand the areas you own.
- Spanish (B2 minimum) is required for this role.
- 4 years of professional fullstack (or strong frontend-leaning fullstack) web development.
- Solid Vue 3 (Composition API) with TypeScript; comfortable with Pinia, Vue Router, and a data-fetching layer (e.g. TanStack Query / Axios).
- Solid object-oriented PHP and WordPress experience (themes, plugins, hooks, custom queries) — or strong OOP PHP plus clear willingness to ramp on WordPress.
- Understanding of REST API design — versioning, routing, request/response handling — and consuming APIs from a SPA.
- Comfortable with Vite, SCSS, and responsive layout (Bootstrap or component libraries like PrimeVue).
- Git, Docker, and the ability to find your way around a large, mixed-tech repo.
- Self-directed on well-defined tasks, and clear in written English.
- Laravel (or another PHP framework) experience.
- Experience with headless/hybrid WordPress (WP as a content/API engine).
- Design patterns in practice (factories, abstract classes, traits) and clean API versioning/migration.
- Observability / reliability mindset: health checks, circuit breakers, WP-Cron jobs, graceful degradation.
- Storybook, micro-frontend patterns, or embedding SPAs into a CMS.
- Elementor or other page-builder integration; custom data import pipelines.
- Tooling around Bun, Nginx, Redis, MySQL/MariaDB, and CI/CD pipelines.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Spanish (B2 minimum)
- 4 years of professional fullstack web development
- Solid Vue 3 (Composition API) with TypeScript
- Experience with Pinia and Vue Router
- Familiarity with a data-fetching layer (e.g., TanStack Query or Axios)
- Solid object-oriented PHP and WordPress experience (themes, plugins, hooks, custom queries) or strong OOP PHP with willingness to ramp on WordPress
- Understanding of REST API design, versioning, routing, and SPA consumption
- Comfortable with Vite and SCSS
- Responsive layout experience (Bootstrap or component libraries like PrimeVue)
- Proficiency with Git and Docker; ability to work in a large mixed-tech repo
- Familiarity with Docker Compose environment components (Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and shipping to Azure
- Attention to type safety, linting/formatting (vue-tsc, ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint), performance and accessibility
- Self-directed on well-defined tasks and clear written English
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
