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

Anatta Design•Charleston, SC

4d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a hands-on Email Developer to migrate an established e-commerce client from Mandrill to Maropost as part of a broader Shopify replatform. The role involves taking designs and transforming them into production-ready, logic-driven templates within Maropost. You will be responsible for building approximately 100 transactional and lifecycle marketing emails, including Liquid-based templates, modular components, conditional logic for complex user segments, multi-country/multi-language support, and Shopify trigger integration. Additionally, you will assist in auditing and migrating existing Mandrill flows. This is an execution-focused contract role with a tight timeline, requiring completion of the build before late August UAT for a September 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
Strong command of Liquid templating (or comparable ESP templating languages)
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)

Nice To Haves

Maropost certifications or shippable Maropost portfolio work
Subscription / autoship email flow experience (Seal Subscriptions, ReCharge, Skio, etc.)
Multi-language / multi-country email programs at scale
Deliverability fundamentals (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, sender reputation, suppression management)
Working on migration timelines tied to a larger replatform launch

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 (e.g., preferred customer vs. unaffiliated buyer), 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
Coordinate with subscription tooling (Seal Subscriptions) for subscription-related email events
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