Senior Frontend Engineer, React/TypeScript, Dynamic Email Templates

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain scalable frontend and email template components utilizing contemporary web development methodologies.

• Create dynamic email templates employing Apache Velocity/VTL-style macros like #set, #if, #foreach, and #define.

• Assemble reusable Velocity components and macros into comprehensive email templates.

• Convert Figma designs into modular, maintainable code.

• Collaborate with shared design systems and reusable components rather than creating one-off hand-coded HTML.

• Assess when to enhance an existing component versus constructing a new one.

• Integrate user interfaces and email templates with backend platforms and API-driven data sources.

• Connect to, query, consume, and format data from internal or external APIs for conditional, logic-driven dynamic emails.

• Develop templates for scalability, including support for 100+ locales, localized copy, dynamic data, per-recipient personalization, and array-based looping.

• Hand-code responsive, accessible HTML/CSS optimized for email client rendering constraints across Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail.

• Work proficiently with Git, GitLab or GitHub, the command line, and modern IDE-based development workflows.

• Collaborate in environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, and AWS primitives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Senior-level frontend or software engineering experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience.

• Current or most recent position should likely be Software Engineer or Frontend Engineer with a focus on frontend development.

• Strong frontend development skills in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

• Experience in integrating frontend interfaces with backend platforms or services.

• Proficient understanding of Apache Velocity, VTL, or Velocity-style macro templating.

• Practical experience with macros including #set, #if, #foreach, and #define.

• Background in composing components or macros into complete email templates.

• Experience working with scalable design systems and shared reusable components.

• Capability to build for personalization, localization, and dynamic data at scale.

• Proven track record in consuming API data and applying it in conditional, logic-driven templates or user experiences.

• Advanced skills in responsive HTML/CSS coding for email clients.

• Experience in creating accessible email or frontend experiences.

• Familiar with rendering limitations across Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail.

• Strong skills in Git, command line, and IDE workflows.

• Experience translating Figma designs into modular code.

• Knowledge of AWS primitives such as compute, storage, networking, and IAM.

• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitLab CI.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% allocation.

• Expected 40 hours per week.

• Contract currently anticipated to extend through March 31, 2027.