What are the responsibilities and job description for the Email Developer - Maropost / ESP Migration (Contract) - United States position at Anatta Design?
Overview
We're migrating an established ecommerce client from Mandrill to Maropost as part of a broader Shopify replatform. We have designers and strategy covered — the gap is a hands-on email developer who can take designs and turn them into production-ready, logic-driven templates inside Maropost.
You'll own the build-out of roughly 100 transactional and lifecycle marketing emails: Liquid-based templates, modular components, conditional logic for complex user segments, multi-country/multi-language support, and Shopify trigger integration. You'll also help audit and migrate existing Mandrill flows.
This is execution-focused work on a tight timeline (build complete before late-August UAT, September 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
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)
Bonus Points For
- 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
Engagement Details
- Type: Contract, with potential to extend into post-launch optimization and remaining marketing campaigns
- Duration: ~2 months of active build; target completion before late-August UAT for a September launch
- Commitment: Full-time preferred; 30 hours/week minimum
- Location: Remote
Compensation Transparency & Pay Philosophy
At Anatta Design, we believe in fair and competitive compensation based on location. We post salary ranges in compliance with state requirements for U.S.-based roles, ensuring transparency for candidates in those regions. If you are applying from outside the U.S., please note that our pay scales are adjusted based on the cost of living and market conditions in each country.