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Full Stack Developer with Email Marketing Experience [CLOSED]

Full Time or Part Time 3000.00 - 5000.00 USD Type: Monthly

HTML5 Javascript basics (u... Email Marketing Website design Tech Support Software Development... Web Software Develop... MSSQL

We are FiveZero - a family of daily news and special interest publication brands. We manage and promote several different newsletter-based review, trivia, and news websites. We have over 1.5M subscribers across our network who receive multiple daily emails with links to these articles and other related content. We work to maximize revenue across our properties while providing high quality content for our subscribers.

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer with experience in email marketing.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Create new websites and/or apps/Chrome extensions from scratch
  • Provide support for our existing sites - be available and on-call for website crashes or errors, pre-deployment edits to on-site or in-email content, and urgent troubleshooting in our support platforms
  • Follow new brand launch project guidelines to successfully build, test, and launch new sites - adhering to a predetermined timeline for launch with a team of supporting operational roles involved in the daily preparation and deployment of our newsletters and promotional emails

With much of our content being news related, we conduct operations 7 days/week. Hours for this position are 8am-4pm CST Monday - Friday. Weekend staff operations may also require occasional technical support. This role will require timely response and completion of support tickets during the same weekend hours in case of an emergency.

Technical Skills Required:

  • Ability to read, edit, and code in HTML and Javascript
  • SQL Databasing knowledge
  • Knowledge of how API’s work - ability to create, edit, and problem solve with them
  • Ability to develop for both Desktop and Mobile
  • Understanding of how to create a great user experience on any platform - UI/UX design skill (preferred)
  • Knowledge of web architecture
  • Ability to test, track, and troubleshoot any factors associated with site optimization

Our ideal candidate for this role is:

  • Tolerant of ambiguity
  • Process Oriented
  • Communicative - flexible and responsive to urgent tasks
  • Consistent
  • Demonstrates resourcefulness in creative problem solving

Email marketing skills are also required for this role including how to pass email UTM’s, connect API’s between website pages to an ESP, and understanding of how ESP’s and ISP’s work and can be manipulated. Knowledge of A/B testing and an understanding of audience segmentation strategies is a plus as well as experience using project management software (we use Asana). Experience with large-scale campaign deployment is also preferred.

This role will give you tons of hands-on experience and insight into the power of email marketing as well as the thrill of working with a positive, winning team who support each other both in and out of the day-to-day Slacking. We enjoy paid time off and designated, weekly no-screen time...but we know how to dig in and sprint when necessary. Our content is consumed by millions of people daily and we take that responsibility seriously...but we also like to have fun.

Please reply with a summary of your skills as related to this role and portfolio of work.

Specifically, we would like to create a site that models these examples:

https://traveltrivia.com

https://www.quizdaily.com

https://www.triviagenius.com

Please include your approach to the project including your analysis of how these examples were built - the capabilities and limitations of each, and your process for optimally building the tech infrastructure of a new site. A video demonstration or summary of key points would be optimal but not required.

FiveZero LLC

We are FiveZero - a family of conservative news and special interest publication brands. We manage and promote several different newsletter-based r...

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