Sr. Software Engineer Marketing Technology

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia were as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide were proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where natural wonders are our product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: Its perfect. Now make it better. As pioneers of relentless improvement we are constantly believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although were an apparel and footwear-focused company technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswears Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands a global supply chain and 500 geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store mobile and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The Software Engineer designs develops tests deploys monitors and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality security privacy reliability availability maintainability performance compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the teams technical foundation to deliver modern simple and secure solutions and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with Architects Product Managers and Agile Leaders to implement and refine technical architectural designs in alignment with enterprise standards and to deliver software in an agile way with continuous improvement in mind.

Scope of delivery and sphere of influence is for a single squad. Partners with peer squads in same domain or capability area to ensure solid design and seamless integration.

Level of complexity of autonomous work: Medium

Experience level: Senior

HOW YOULL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Development:

Design & Implementation: Responsible for design development testing deployment maintenance monitoring and support of a platform or application. Maintain thoughtful application design. Build subject matter expertise in the business area.

Quality & Performance: Establish and manage quality standards. Leverage automation where possible. Ensure application performance uptime and scale. Practice in peer code reviews. Troubleshoot and fix bugs security risks bottlenecks etc. Improve software development lifecycle. Create and maintain support playbooks.

Observability: Monitor and observe health availability and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identify and implement new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers/stakeholders.

Technical Advancement: Employ DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions. Stay current on technology landscape. Ensures that solutions stay modern simple and secure.

Innovation: Explore new technologies and ways of software delivery. Create proof of concepts to experiment new ideas. Inform recommendations based on learnings from POCs.

Product Backlog & Roadmap Input: Contribute to and help refine the teams backlog. Apply knowledge to partner with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensure stories have clear understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Help inform delivery estimates (story points) prioritization identify dependencies and influence the product roadmap. Generate stories for backlog to address performance non-functional requirements tech debt modernization simplification etc.

Agile Delivery: Participate in agile ceremonies including daily stand-up backlog refinement planning review/demo and retrospectives. Help drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seek ways to drive continuous improvement within team.

Architecture & Design: Seeks to understand application architecture for the squads broader area of responsibility including partner teams. Starts to partner with Solution Architects to understand define and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implement reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost effective solutions that drive the right business value.

Mentoring/Team Development: Mentor junior and intermediate individuals in the squad on technical delivery. Work to build technical skills in teammates through direction example and by creating opportunities for others to learn.

YOU ARE

Curious You ask why and understand how systems data and business processes connect. Youre intellectually driven to improve not just the code but the entire template ecosystem and how it serves the business.

Communicator You write clear documentation decision logs status updates and technical specs that remote teammates can act on without live calls. Async clarity is your strengthcritical for distributed team success.

Detail-oriented You catch rendering inconsistencies localization bugs and edge cases that others miss. You maintain high quality standards and push back constructively when designs wont render cross-client.

Collaborative You work fluently with designers marketers CRM specialists data engineers and operations teams. You translate business briefs into technically feasible email specs and provide actionable feedback to design partners.

Thoughtful Problem-Solver You anticipate downstream impacts of template changes on tracking deliverability and CRM workflows. You balance technical elegance with operational maintainability.

Self-Directed You proactively identify opportunities to modernize optimize and document the email platform. You stay current with email development best practices and community standards.

YOU HAVE

Bachelors degree applicable certification or equivalent experience.

5 8 years professional experience

Expert-level email HTML/CSS: Table-based layouts inline CSS media queries cross-client rendering (Outlook VML Gmail clip limits Apple Mail dark mode). Proficiency with CSS inlining tools (Juice Premailer MJML).

Template language expertise: Liquid Handlebars or equivalent. Experience building reusable snippets and dynamic content blocks.

MJML or equivalent framework(MJML 4.x Premail Foundation for Email or HEML). Comfortable with build pipelines and Git version control for email source.

Multi-brand multi-locale email systems: Demonstrated ability to manage template variants across brands regions and languages. Integration experience with enterprise ESPs (Zeta Braze Salesforce Marketing Cloud Klaviyo).

Email design system & component architecture: Experience designing or evolving design systems translating design tokens into reusable components working with Figma and design-to-code workflows.

Email testing & QA discipline: Hands-on use of Litmus Email on Acid or equivalent. Systematic QA plans covering renders accessibility and deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC basics).

Data and event integration: Ability to read event specs integrate payloads into templates work with product feeds and recommendation logic.

Async communication & global teams (required): Proven experience on multi-timezone or globally distributed teams (USIndia GCC or cross-region models). Strong documentation and async handoff skills. Comfortable with cultural nuances in distributed environments.

Development & collaboration tools: Git command-line workflows linting/testing automation.Jira proficiency: workflows story refinement story points Agile boards (Scrum/Kanban).

Portfolio or demonstrable evidence: Live cross-client emails GitHub repo with MJML/template source Litmus/Email on Acid results or design system work (strongly preferred).

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company.