Employment Opportunity
Database and Web Developer

Organization: Real Food for Real Kids

Website: www.rfrk.com

Location: Downtown Toronto, ON

Seeking: Database and Web Developer

Positions Available: 1

Reports to: ITS Manager

Hours: Full Time

Compensation:

• Competitive salary and RRSP matching
• Excellent benefits program, including: alternative and preventative health treatments
• Inspiring work environment

Application Deadline: ongoing

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

About Real Food for Real Kids:

Real Food for Real Kids (RFRK) is Canada's leading healthy catering company for kids in childcare centres, elementary schools and camps - making the Great Place to Work list of Canada's 100 Best Workplaces for back-to-back years, winning awards of excellence with the Green Toronto Awards and receiving the 2014 Regional Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. RFRK prepares and delivers nutritious and delicious hot lunches and snacks, made fresh-from-scratch for over 15,000 kids daily throughout the GTA. We focus on wholesome nutrition and global flavours, while using as much local and organic ingredients as practical. RFRK’s mission is to enable and inspire a lifetime of healthy eating, and to have a rockin’ good time while doing it!

A glimpse at the role:

Your key strengths are developing code for websites, databases development, and fine tuning legacy systems to a new level of hummmmm. You have a professional and personable approach to working with internal and external teams to streamline processes. For kicks, you’ve learned to develop in multiple environments because you can’t help but stay current with emerging trends. With a proven track record of building productivity gains through new and existing technology systems, you have built a reputation for delivering top notch results under strict timelines.

Some of the things you’ll get paid to do:

• Design, implementation, testing and maintenance of relational databases

• Create production ready applications and perform extensive testing

• Work with cross departmental teams to develop needed data reporting

• Develop code at each layer of the application (server side, client side and database)

• Create and update complex Excel reports

• Work with Network Administrator to establish security measures that ensure that databases are secure and backup systems are in place

• Manage software administration, licensing and upgrades

• Install new systems software and upgrades

• Assist other ITS team members as needed to fill in operational gaps

The things you can’t believe you’ll be getting paid to do:

• Have a hand in reshaping the way children, families, and educators eat and perceive food
• Help our community embrace real food and foster new healthy eating habits
• Put your professional and personal strengths to work in a growing and dynamic company

Yes, it sounds like a lot, but anything less wouldn’t interest you! You see the alchemy of these responsibilities, and the chance to take a fast-growing company (on a world-changing mission) to new heights as too good to pass up.

Required Education and Experience:

• College diploma or University degree in database design and/or computer programming
• 5+ years of solid programming experience with ASP.NET/C#,VB, JAVA, webforms and SQL server
• Expert level Windows 7, MacOS X, AppleScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic, MS Excel, VBA, SQL, CSS, ASP.NET, C#, IIS
• Demonstrated skill using Visual Studio and SQL management studio

Skills and Personal Attributes:

• Critical thinker with advanced analytical, logical, and problem solving skills

Nice-to-haves:

• FileMaker Pro 11/14, FileMaker Server training
• Salesforce Developer certification
• Prior experience with CRM, ERP development
• French Language skills