Job posting: Software Engineer, Front-end

By Francois Lane, on March 10, 2010 - Leave a comment
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CakeMail’s baking a great email service, and we need someone to write some great recipes. As one of Montreal’s hottest new technology companies, we’re looking for only the best programmers to add to our dynamic team.

Responsibilities

  • Write bulletproof front-end code for international audiences in PHP, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
  • Seamlessly integrate CakeMail with limitless 3rd-party APIs
  • Rapidly fix bugs and problem-solve
  • Proactively look for ways to make CakeMail a better ESP, globally

Essential ingredients

  • You have a strong bias for UX and IA
  • Expert JS/HTML/CSS/Ajax coding skills
  • Excellent programming skills in C/C++ or PHP
  • Disciplined, process-oriented approach to testing and quality assurance
  • Experience with character encoding and/or Unicode
  • Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility
  • Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
  • Great written communication and documentation abilities

Bonus Points

  • Experience with Agile methodologies
  • Experience with mobile web development (iPhone/Blackberry/Android)
  • Experience with data visualization
  • A keen interest in user interface design
  • You are multilingual
  • You are an active blogger and/or tweeter
  • Your left brain is as developed as your right brain
  • You like cupcakes

This is a great opportunity for someone ready to make an impact in a highly-competitive and exciting industry. If you feel you are ready for the challenge, then let’s talk.

We will not respond to unsolicited recruiters.

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CakeMail now integrates with FormSpring online form builder

By Francois Lane, on March 2, 2010 - Leave a comment
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addons_formspringWe’ve just integrated with FormSpring – a popular form builder app that makes it easy to collect and manage user data via web forms, registrations, surveys, polls and more. If you’re a user, you can now collect, manage and market to your collected data quickly and easily using CakeMail. This new integration makes it easy to send automatic welcome emails to all new form subscribers, grow newsletter lists, drive lead generation through targeted email messages, and update existing subscriber information so you’re always up-to-date. However you use FormSpring, you can now use CakeMail to close the conversation loop.

Great, how do I get it?

Just like our other contact modules, you first need to activate the module under the ‘Modules’ tab. Then simply login to your account and import a list under the ‘Contact lists’ tab. As you would import a basic .csv file, you can now upload directly from your FormSprings account by clicking the ‘FormSpring’ button as the import source. Just add your FormSpring API key and the specific form ID you want to pull data from, for example: https://www.formspring.com/admin/form/builder/[Form_ID]. You can even choose to send an automatic welcome email to all new form subscribers, and don’t worry, you can add multiple FormSpring forms for truly-targeted email messages to your subscribers.