IT Systems Developer

almost 3 years ago
Full time role
San Francisco, CA, US... more
San Francisco, CA, US... more

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Memphis Meats creates real, edible meat products from stem cells instead of living animals. At Memphis Meats, our mission is to ...

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Job Description

About us

At the forefront of farming and food, UPSIDE Foods is innovating new ways to produce real meat, without the need to breed, feed and slaughter animals. Our process begins with an animal cell, which is cultivated and harvested as meat. UPSIDE Foods is a mission-driven company focused on bringing to meat lovers an authentic product that is truly humane, sustainably produced, nutritious and delicious! We are now expanding our team of dedicated professionals across disciplines to make better meat for a better world.

About this job

The IT Systems Developer builds and implements applications, tools, adapters, and other integrations for backend systems at Memphis Meats.  They will work closely across business units at Memphis including finance, operations, production, data, and people, in building and supporting technology to enable cross functional communication and workflows.  Reporting to the Director of IT, this role will be critical in implementing our core business systems and working with business partners in customizing workflows, integrations, and enhancements.  The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience working with ERP, Quality Management, and similar systems that integrate with backend business and live production facilities. The candidate should be very familiar with business analytics platforms, such as Tableau or PowerBI, as well as workflow automation solutions. Additional experience with HRIS and Quality platforms is a major plus.  The candidate should be comfortable working across various environments, implementing heterogeneous systems, and working among a group of exceptionally talented people.

The daily life of the IT Systems Developer will include a broad range of interactions with our backend and production teams.  You will spend your first few months working closely with our finance team on implementing a new ERP solution.  You will also partner with our IT DevOps team to deploy Quality, Supply Chain, Document Control, and Lab Information systems securely in our AWS private cloud.  You can expect to have lots of great challenges and have opportunities to make significant impact in our rapid growth.

Duties include

  • Development, deployment, and management of local and cloud based tooling that facilitates cross application functionality, including the transit of data, and implementing API calls across disparate technologies.
  • Working closely with our internal data & development teams, collaborating on systems design, testing and deployment of internal services.
  • Ongoing support for our ERP platform and related integrations, working closely with our finance team.
  • Collecting requirements and feedback from our business partners and developing solutions for their platform challenges.
  • Supporting other IT team members to get the job done, we don’t build walls here - we break them down.
  • Producing detailed documentation and operating guides.
  • User training & support.
  • On-call support, including incident and change management.

About you

  • You love solving problems with battle tested solutions but aren’t afraid to develop novel remedies when needed.
  • You have strong experience in software development languages used for backend systems development such as Python, Java, C#, or Ruby.  Most importantly, you understand how to leverage them appropriately in a production environment; specifically operating systems in a DevOps model using CI/CD best practices.
  • You have implemented and/or extensively used business automation tools & middleware like Informatica, Dell Boomi, Mulesoft, or similar technologies. 
  • Deeply curious; You have a need to understand how things work and why. 
  • Customer obsessed; You understand that IT exists primarily to ensure the business is productive and stays that way. 
  • Security minded; You typically seek the most secure option, while considering how to decrease friction for your users. 
  • You have had 3-5+ years developing for fast growing businesses, especially in cloud environments (AWS is a major plus)
  • You roll with the punches, and don’t have a hard time context switching when necessary. 
  • You have a proven history in working well with other technology teams. 

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