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.
As a Senior Web Developer at SendGrid, you will architect and 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.
What You’ll Do
- Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble.
- Work hand-in-hand with our website and marketing team to build and maintain an amazing website and intranet experience for our customers and employees.
- Architect 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.
- 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.
About You
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.
- 5+ years experience in enterprise-grade or e-commerce website development using WordPress.
- You love a good debate on whether to use a plugin, content types, or page templates to build out customized content.
- You are proficient in PHP.
- You’re seasoned enough in the field that you’ve built your own theme or plugin.
- You know how important performance and security are for a company that acquires new customers through their website. As such, you have a disciplined process for evaluating potential WordPress plugins and you monitor performance regularly.
- 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 adept at creating responsive and interactive web pages using WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, Javascript/JQuery.
- You’re comfortable integrating content from third party APIs.
- You have an understanding of photography, usability, visual design, and modern interaction patterns.
- You are proficient in sprint planning, estimation, time management, and communicating status.
- Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals.
- 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.
SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.