Email Developer
What is an email developer?
An email developer builds the marketing and lifecycle emails companies send — coding them in HTML and CSS so they render correctly across Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, and dozens of other clients. It's a focused, technical role that sits between design and marketing: you take a concept and turn it into a responsive, on-brand email that works everywhere and drives revenue.
Day to day, you'll hand-code or use frameworks like MJML to build templates, wire them into an email platform (ESP) such as Klaviyo or Braze, test them, and ship campaigns and automated flows. The skill set is concrete and learnable, and because most marketers won't touch email code, a developer who can is genuinely hard to replace.
This path takes you from the fundamentals to a job-ready portfolio — built for beginners, no degree required.
Want the complete breakdown? Read How to Become an Email Developer.
Why companies hire email developers
Email is still one of the highest-ROI channels in marketing, and almost every brand runs it on a platform that needs someone technical to build and maintain. Demand is steady, the applicant pool is small, and these are the tools teams hire for.
Salary range
| Level | Typical pay |
|---|---|
| Junior | $65,000 |
| Mid | $85,000 |
| Senior | $110,000+ |
Typical U.S. ranges that vary by location, company, and experience — not a guarantee.
Skills you'll build
- ✓HTML
- ✓CSS
- ✓Responsive email
- ✓MJML
- ✓ESP platforms (Klaviyo, Braze…)
- ✓QA & testing
- ✓Basic automation
Your roadmap
- HTML
- CSS
- Responsive emails
- MJML
- ESP platforms
- Automation
- First job
Email developers we've helped get hired
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Course curriculum
13 carefully curated courses to guide your learning journey.
Text Editors
Your editor is where you live all day: learn VS Code's shortcuts, settings, and extensions so it works as fast as you think.
HTML Basics
Real HTML fundamentals, taught interactively: semantic structure, forms that validate, and the accessibility and SEO habits profes...
Learn HTML and CSS by Building a Cool Social Network
Learn HTML and CSS the memorable way: by rebuilding the Facebook interface piece by piece, then making it responsive and adding da...
Terminal For Developers
The command line without the intimidation: navigate, manage files, and make your terminal a tool you actually enjoy opening.
HTML UI Elements
Eight portfolio-grade UI builds: gradient buttons, a glass navbar with hamburger menu, a DMV form, CSS-only tabs, cards, tables, a...
CSS Basics
The CSS fundamentals that make everything else make sense: selectors, specificity, the box model, and positioning, taught interact...
Email Developer Course: Build Bulletproof HTML Emails
The complete path from your first table cell to production-ready promotional, newsletter, and transactional emails that render eve...
Responsive HTML Emails Course
Take one real email design from PSD to a tested, responsive template in the inbox, coding every table row yourself so you understa...
Git Like A Pro!
Go from copying git commands you don't understand to branching, merging, and pushing with total confidence.
MJML - Email Framework Course
Stop hand-writing email tables. Learn MJML from setup to a finished Shopify store email, with your own reusable components along t...
Email Marketing For Developers
The marketing side of email: capture subscribers on a landing page, tag them automatically, and build sequences and campaigns peop...
Design Software For Developers
Enough design skill to be dangerous: fonts, hierarchy, and color theory, then real builds in Photoshop and Sketch, including HTML...
Get Certificate For Career Completion
Earn an official CodingPhase Career Path Certificate by completing all required courses and building real-world projects. This cer...
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