Job Description

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.We 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 we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s 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 team's 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 YOU’LL 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.

ObservabilityMonitor 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.

InnovationExplore 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 team's 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 squad's 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. You're 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 strength—critical 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 won't 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

Bachelor’s 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 Node.js/npm 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 (US–India, 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, Node.js/npm, 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 position's scope and function in the company.