Email Developer - Maropost / ESP Migration (Contract) - United States

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy ~100 transactional and lifecycle emails in Maropost — order confirmations, shipping notifications, refunds, cancellations, account updates, abandoned cart, welcome/onboarding, reorder flows, product review requests, and promotional campaigns
• Develop a reusable, modular component library plus a global header/footer system aligned with the client's new design system
• Implement Liquid-based dynamic templates with conditional logic for variables like customer type, autoship vs. non-autoship, affiliate flows, subscription lifecycle events, and lead routing
• Configure multi-country and multi-language localization
• Audit the client's existing Mandrill email inventory and migrate flows to Maropost (or support a hybrid approach if needed)
• Wire up Shopify triggers to Maropost flows; validate end-to-end functionality alongside the broader platform migration
• Coverage of subscription / autoship email flow experience (Seal Subscriptions, ReCharge, Skio, etc.)
• Support a dedicated QA phase covering business logic variability, localization, deliverability, and rendering across major clients and devices
• Document templates, components, and conditional logic so the client's marketing team can maintain and extend the system post-launch

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on email development experience with production builds inside an ESP
• Direct Maropost experience strongly preferred. Will consider experienced developers from Klaviyo, Iterable, Braze, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar platforms if you can ramp quickly
• Prior experience executing an ESP migration, ideally Mandrill → another platform
• Expert-level HTML/CSS for email: tables, inline styles, MSO conditional comments, dark mode handling, and responsive techniques that survive Outlook
• Experience integrating an ESP with Shopify (or comparable ecommerce platform), including event-triggered transactional flows
• Comfort translating Figma designs into pixel-faithful production templates
• High attention to detail around conditional logic, edge cases, and localization variants
• Familiarity with email QA tooling (Litmus, Email on Acid, or similar)