Web Developer

SendGrid

(Denver, Colorado)

Temp-to-Hire

Job Posting Details

About SendGrid

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

Summary

As a Web Developer contractor for SendGrid, you will help us build beautiful user-centered website experiences and be an essential part of bringing happy new customers onto our platform with your exceptional WordPress, PHP and front-end development skills.

Responsibilities

Work hand-in-hand with our in-house website team to build and maintain an amazing website and intranet experience for our customers and employees.
Help build dynamic WordPress pages, templates, content types, and taxonomies to support our website initiatives.
Craft pixel-perfect, responsive UI using WordPress/PHP, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and Javascript/JQuery.
Maintain the highest possible customer experience with cross-browser testing, performance tuning, regular bug fixing and a passion for tech debt reduction.
Uphold our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble.
We're an agile, fast-growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do.

Ideal Candidate

You are a WordPress pro who regards code as poetry and has a passion for creating engaging, precise, and lightning fast experiences. You care about consistency, forward-thinking  architecture, security, and building interactions that will delight the user.

* 3+ years experience in enterprise-grade or e-commerce website development using a CMS.
* You’re available to contribute 10 - 30 hours per week, depending on the amount of work we have during the sprint. (We can set a fixed number of hours per week if that’s easier for you).
* You’re willing to attend our sprint planning meetings, track your work in our Jira project and use HipChat for real-time communication with the team.
* You’re happy doing a variety of different work - from bug fixing to complex new page development.
* You love a good debate on whether to use a plugin, content types, or page templates to build out customized content.
* You are effective in PHP.
* You know how important performance and security are for a company that acquires new customers through their website.
* You’re comfortable with Git and enterprise hosting providers like Pantheon to deploy code across dev, test and live environments.
* You’ve implemented pixel tracking code and data layer attributes for services like Google Tag Manager.
* You’re comfortable creating responsive web pages using WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, Javascript/JQuery.
* You have an understanding of photography, usability, visual design, and modern interaction patterns.
* Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in.
* Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.
* Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active.
* Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals.

You are a WordPress pro who regards code as poetry and has a passion for creating engaging, precise, and lightning fast experiences. You care about consistency, forward-thinking architecture, security, and building interactions that will delight the user.

3+ years experience in enterprise-grade or e-commerce website development using a CMS.
You’re available to contribute 10 - 30 hours per week, depending on the amount of work we have during the sprint. (We can set a fixed number of hours per week if that’s easier for you).
You’re willing to attend our sprint planning meetings, track your work in our Jira project and use HipChat for real-time communication with the team.
You’re happy doing a variety of different work - from bug fixing to complex new page development.
You love a good debate on whether to use a plugin, content types, or page templates to build out customized content.
You are effective in PHP.
You know how important performance and security are for a company that acquires new customers through their website.
You’re comfortable with Git and enterprise hosting providers like Pantheon to deploy code across dev, test and live environments.
You’ve implemented pixel tracking code and data layer attributes for services like Google Tag Manager.
You’re comfortable creating responsive web pages using WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, Javascript/JQuery.
You have an understanding of photography, usability, visual design, and modern interaction patterns.
Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in.
Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.
Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active.
Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals.