Job Description

As a Creative Software Engineer, you’ll be a member of a creative team specialized in creating digital experiences and marketing campaigns. You will be part of a diverse, distributed team working on payments product marketing. You will help bring technology to the creative process; the front-end interactions you bring to life will create remarkable experiences for our sellers.

You are well-versed in an appropriate mix of development and prototyping platforms and tools and know how to select the most suitable platform for the task. You provide flexible code that can be iterated upon, and you pride yourself on being up-to-date with the latest best practices. Thriving on exploration and experimentation, you are at the heart of co-creating ideas and bringing them to life. You have skills that complement your application of technology, including but never limited to: a precise eye for intelligent UX, great design, and good foundations in process.

You Will:

• Participate in concept development iteration, partnering on projects from brainstorming and design through implementation.
• Take creative direction and expand on concept ideas for tactics, with a solid and active contribution to creative reviews.
• Manage hands-on technical development, from prototypes coming out of brainstorming through to final launch/G2M production code.
• Contribute to discussions about the digital aspects of creative campaigns.
• Present ideas or prototypes to mixed client marketing / technical audiences.
• Work creatively through and around perceived limitations and challenges imposed by the delivery platform to create delightful customer experiences.
• Evaluate and document any creative and engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Front-end development – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern tooling
• Back-end development – Familiarity with Ruby, Java, or other back-end languages
• Familiarity building in and working with CMSs
• Portfolio of work that displays design, high-fidelity animation, motion, iconography, typography, color, and imagery
• Understanding of web standards, browser performance, and best practices
• Experience with digital marketing, advertising, and understanding metrics
• Advocate for technology and choose the right tool for the job
• Familiarity with modern design tools (Figma, Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D)