You are: A software engineer who knows that people are the beating heart of any business.

You enjoy: Listening to those people to help identify their problems.

You understand: The power of software to help solve some of those problems.

You value: Human relationships before technical ones.

You have: Demonstrated experience in all the above.

You’d like: To be the person who can introduce the power of software engineering to our 172-year-old organization.

You are: The software engineering candidate Palmer Food Services would like to meet.

Why Palmer Food Services?

We offer competitive wages and a generous benefit package that contributes a significant amount to your total compensation and your personal well-being. Additionally, there are opportunities to distinguish yourself and move up in our established company through excellent performance and by contributing to our company mission, vision, and values. We value each member of our diverse and talented team - because at Palmer Food Services, our associates are our unfair advantage.

What We Value:

• Honesty & Integrity
• Service & Excellence
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Family & Community
• Dependability & Loyalty
• Compassion

What You Will Do:

• Introduce software engineering to our organization, helping create innovative software that adds value to our currently standalone enterprise systems.
• Define an appropriate enterprise architecture and strategy that will spark innovation.
• Work closely with all business functions (buyers, salespeople, warehouse workers, transportation, etc.) and business analyst to understand daily, weekly, monthly, and other cyclical needs. Leverages understanding of business to develop high quality code to meet requirements.
• Applies agile development approaches, with a strong customer-focus & results-orientation to develop clear sense of direction and trust with stakeholders. Leads short iterations, frequent inspections, adaptations of code. Negotiates trade-offs and compromises.
• Leads adoption of software development best procedures and concepts, including agile practices like user stories, incremental design, test-driven development to ensure performance, scaling, resilience, and maintainability of software/solutions.
• Passionate about their project and their job. A problem solver, and proud of it.
• Must always be learning (technology, our business, the industry, our customers).

**This position will be in office, located at our corporate building**

What You Need:

• Full-stack software engineering, with demonstrated experience in UX and back-end.
• 3-5+ years of software development experience in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum).
• Proficiency in C#, Objective C and.NET; Prefer 3+ years of SQL Server, LINQ, T-SQL.
• Knowledge of Progress 4GL desired.
• Strong oral and written communication skills—and a knack for explaining your decision-making process to those not in IT.
• Thorough grasp of technology concepts, business operations, design and development tools, system architecture standards and development best practices like test-driven development, code reviews, static code analysis and secure coding.
• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Preferred, but not required experience:

• Familiarity with ERP systems and online order entry
• Experience working in the food service industry

Benefits of working Full-Time at Palmer Food Services:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Benefit Time (PTO, Holiday and Sick)
• 401k Retirement Plan with Employer Matching
• Eligibility for Annual Profit-Sharing Bonus
• 15% Employee Discount on Retail Grocery Items (Includes Fresh Meat & Seafood)
• Associate Discounts on Warehouse Food Products
• Employee Appreciation Events
• And much more