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Brad’s Deals

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Posted on: 14 May 2024

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Email Developer

Love what you do. It’s a core value that drives our business. Plus, we’re pretty fun.

We also believe people do their best work where they feel most comfortable so the work location of this position is flexible. However, all candidates must be eligible and able to work in the United States, without sponsorship.

About Brad’s Deals

Our Why—At Brad's Deals, we believe there is a better way to shop. It goes beyond price. It's the value in connecting with consumers on what's important so we can deliver the best savings and choices every day.

Our Team—We're real people, really helping. We call ourselves Brad Ambassadors—where passion and expertise create the magic in our mission to 'create the consumer advantage.

Our Promise—Consumers first, always.

As an Email Developer, you will learn our martech stack and work with Product Managers, Designers, Marketing, and other Engineers to understand our email marketing initiatives. Your input will help shape how we develop future email templates. Then you'll set the trajectory for email template processes and contribute to a roadmap for sustainable template development. Your knowledge of current email templates, structured data, and martech systems will be on solid footing. You will jump into any part of the email martech stack and be essential to the progression of our user-focused email products.

This role will also put your UX sensibilities and development skills to the test. You will take ownership of a new, systematized approach to email template creation. Your knowledge of our design systems, patterns, and components will be the envy of all!

What You'll Do

Collaborate with design, marketing, and engineering to build, test, and ship email templates

Identify UX/UI and Accessibility concerns. Work with your team, along with Product and Design to make improvements

Build and deploy modern email templating solutions using modular component principles

Work with REST, and other APIs, connecting content for personalization and enrichment

Ensure emails are accessible to all audiences by following WCAG best practices

Maintain tooling to automate testing for deliverability, viewability, and clipping across email clients

Manual testing and debugging of emails on various email clients

Integrate with an event-driven marketing communications platform to power notifications and audience segmentation

Build consumer-facing onboarding, shopping, and other email experiences

Work in tandem with Back End and Full Stack developers, QA, Data, and DevOps engineers, Designers, Product Managers, and Marketing Teams

Review pull requests and give constructive, supportive feedback to team members to improve code quality and maintainability, and to further individual skill-development goals

What You'll Bring

3+ years experience in front-end web development and email template development with an eye for good design and a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences

Extensive knowledge of current HTML, CSS, and Javascript standards, modern browser APIs, build tools, and best practices

Strong understanding of CSS within email templates and coding best practices with tables

Experience with email marketing platforms such as Iterable, Braze, or Sendgrid

Robust experience with one or more major frameworks (e.g., templating engines such as Handlebars or Liquid; CSS Frameworks such as Bootstrap or Material UI; JS frameworks such as Vue, React, Angular)

Comfortable working with REST, JSON APIs

Experience with SCSS / SASS; using variables, mixins, loops, etc to create well-organized and reusable stylesheets

Commitment to building accessible user interfaces and familiarity with current WCAG standards

Dedication to testing best practices and experience building robust automated testing suites with libraries such as Rspec, Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Jasmine

Strong understanding of version control (git), software development processes, and agile methodologies

Familiarity with key web design principles and web standards

Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills

Preference given to candidates who have familiarity with email regulations such as the CAN-SPAM Act; experience with an email development framework like Foundation, MJML, or Maizzle; experience working as a UI/UX designer; experience with various A/B testing frameworks; background in publishing, e-commerce, digital merchandising or other consumer-facing industries; experience working with product analytics, marketing, identity and eventing platforms; familiarity with Docker, containers, and other portable application environments; and/or open source contributions and community engagement

Our Story

Started by Brad in 2001, our purpose remains the same to help create smarter shopping habits and to keep it real with expert lifestyle and financial advice.

Our culture embraces diversity with different talents, experiences, and backgrounds that help us be exceptional together. With competitive pay, full health benefits, 401K profit sharing, plenty of paid time off including a paid sabbatical, and creative perks, we also believe in work-life integration and continued learning.

As one of the 50 Best Places to Work, headquartered in the heart of Chicago’s River North neighborhood, we partner with over 2,500 retailers to help 5.5 million consumers save more every month. So if you want to challenge the ordinary and love what you do, we want to hear from you.

Brad’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

'Embrace diversity’ is one of our core values because our differences make us stronger together. To make the world a more inclusive and safe place, we start within our company to intentionally lead with equal opportunities. We encourage the value that unique talents, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences bring to our company, our employees, and our future applicants. We welcome all applicants, whether or not you meet every qualification, to share your unique talents with us. Read more about this here.

"Love what you do" and our Commitment to your Personal Growth

At Brad’s Deals, our culture invites creativity, passion, and career empowerment to help you thrive. We champion employees to create their personal paths to success and are proud to be above the industry average in employee promotions earned every year. An entrepreneurial spirit supports our commitment to employee growth and being exceptional together with unique talents, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.

*Please note: We are a remote-first culture, so our hiring teams will be conducting virtual interviews with potential candidates.

If this role isn't what you're looking for, please consider other open positions.