Email & Marketing Automation Developer (HTML/CSS)

Location: Hybrid in Cape Town, South Africa

Company

hirify.global provides a commerce partnership marketing platform that helps brands manage affiliate, influencer, publisher, ambassador, and customer referral partnerships.

What you will do

• Build and maintain responsive HTML email templates, campaign assets, and complex dynamic email structures.
• Develop triggered and event-based messaging with conditional logic, personalization, modular components, and scalable templates.
• Configure triggered email templates, support API request setup, and validate payloads, data mappings, and outputs.
• Integrate messaging platforms such as SendGrid with internal systems and workflows.
• Perform cross-client rendering checks, triggered-send verification, API response checks, data validation, and segmentation testing.
• Monitor and troubleshoot automated messaging flows while improving API workflows, automation logic, component design, documentation, and QA efficiency with AI-assisted tools.

Requirements

• Strong HTML/CSS email development and responsive design experience.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, JSON payloads, headers, webhooks, event-driven messaging, data mapping, event tracking, segmentation, and dynamic content.
• Hands-on experience with email service and marketing automation platforms including SendGrid and Marketo.
• Experience with Postman for API testing and familiarity with QA tools such as Litmus.
• 3–5 years of experience in email development, CRM technology, marketing automation, or frontend/integration-focused roles.
• Ability to deliver email builds independently, diagnose issues across code, data, and delivery layers, and collaborate with CRM, product, data, and development teams.

Nice to have

• Relevant diploma, degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to deepen expertise in integration architecture and messaging automation systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Responsible PTO policy supporting work-life balance.
• Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, dependent coverage, and monthly gym reimbursement.
• Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Free Coursera subscription, PXA courses, and support for continuous learning.
• Paid parental leave, including 26 weeks for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology stipend for a home office and monthly internet allowance.