Email Developer - Maropost / ESP Migration

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, migrate, and optimize email communications within a new marketing automation environment.
• Build and deploy approximately 100 transactional and lifecycle marketing emails, including order updates, account communications, onboarding flows, abandoned carts, subscription messages, and promotional campaigns.
• Create reusable modular email components, including global headers, footers, and templates aligned with established design systems.
• Develop Liquid-based dynamic templates with advanced conditional logic for customer segments, subscriptions, affiliate programs, and lifecycle events.
• Configure multi-country and multi-language email experiences with localization requirements.
• Audit existing email workflows and support migration from legacy ESP systems to the new platform.
• Integrate ecommerce triggers between Shopify and the email platform to support automated customer journeys.
• Cook up accurate production-ready email templates from Figma designs.
• Coordinate with subscription management tools to ensure accurate event-driven communications.
• Perform quality assurance testing across business logic variations, localization scenarios, email clients, devices, and rendering environments.
• Translate design files into pixel-accurate, production-ready email templates.
• Document templates, components, and automation logic to enable future maintenance and scalability.

Requirements

• Experienced email developer with strong expertise in ESP platforms, responsive email development, automation logic, and ecommerce integrations.
• Direct experience with Maropost is strongly preferred; experience with platforms such as Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar tools is also valuable.
• Previous experience supporting an ESP migration, ideally involving Mandrill or a comparable platform.
• Strong knowledge of Liquid templating or similar email personalization languages.
• Expert-level HTML and CSS skills for email development, including tables, inline styles, responsive techniques, Outlook compatibility, MSO conditional comments, and dark mode handling.
• Experience integrating email platforms with Shopify or other ecommerce systems through event-based workflows.
• Ability to convert Figma designs into accurate production email templates.
• Strong understanding of email logic, segmentation, personalization, edge cases, and localization requirements.
• Familiarity with email testing and QA tools such as Litmus, Email on Acid, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of email deliverability principles, including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, sender reputation, and suppression management, is a plus.
• Experience with subscription or recurring purchase email flows is preferred.

Benefits

• Contract opportunity with potential extension into post-launch optimization and additional marketing initiatives.
• Remote work flexibility within the United States.
• Full-time engagement preferred, with a minimum commitment of 30+ hours per week.
• Opportunity to contribute to a high-impact ecommerce migration project.
• Work on complex email automation, personalization, and customer lifecycle initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across design, strategy, technology, and ecommerce.
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience, location, and market conditions.