Web Developer

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 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.

* 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.

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.