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Jake’s Fireworks of Pittsburg, KS has an immediate opening for a Wholesale Salesperson.  This position requires a strong self-motivated person with the ability to development new customers and increase sales within current customer base.  Candidates must have a professional manner with excellent communication and organizational skills along with and the ability travel.  Fireworks knowledge a benefit, but not required

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients.
• Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity.
• Identify sales prospects and contact these and other accounts as assigned.
• Develop and maintain sales materials and current product knowledge.
• Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.
• Identify and resolve client concerns.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Skills

Successful candidates should be well organized, detail-oriented individual that possess good communication skills and is comfortable negotiating with customers.  A self-motivated person that possess a diligent work ethic and a high level of self confidence.

E-Mail, Fax or Mail Resume To: 

jim.ramsey@jakesfireworks.com  - Fax 620-231-2416

Jake's Fireworks

Attn: Jim Ramsey

1500 E. 27th Terrace

Pittsburg, KS 66762

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the software development life cycle of a proprietary software application in the retail point-of-sale and inventory management space.  We call it Cloudsent POS. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the resident expert, evangelist, and general goto person for any question on the technical side of Cloudsent POS.
• Translate feature specifications from stakeholders into deliverables.
• Establish sprint development timelines and release dates for patches and version releases.
• Staff and manage a small team of developers as necessary to complete systems updates new feature release on time and on budget.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or documented equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in software development.  This is a handson position.  You will be expected to be able to code and to review other’s code efficiently.
• Expert level understanding to SDLC and AgileScrum Methodology.
• Experience managing development teams.
• Experience in launching and maintaining software applications with rigid patch and versioning control.
• Experience in OoS payment gateway integration platforms and hardware are a plus.
• Ability to work independently without constant oversight and direction.
• Experience in retail based software is a plus and preference will be given to those candidates with documented experience in financial based software development.

Technology Qualifications:

You must have prior documented experience in the following technology stacks and / or be able to firmly demonstrate an understanding of them and their interoperability in a technical interview:

• Kubernetes Container Orchestration
• Apache Cassandra
• React JS
• Java (Client app is Android / Java based).
• Nginx reverse proxy for api4phpfpm.
• JWT Token authentication
• Go / Golang
• Full Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash)

Additional Details:

• This is a full time position based out of our corporate headquarters in Pittsburg, KS.
• Remote / Work From Home is not available for this position.
• Full health insurance, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching.

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We are seeking an experienced Sage X3 administrator to maintain and support our Sage X3 ERP platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the data integrity and continuously improve the application’s usability. 
• Perform updates and patching and work with 3^rd party developers in certifying customizations on those new patches and version.
• Develop custom reports, functions, workflows, etc. as they are requested by departmental leads.
• Develop and embed custom KPI’s and dashboards (Sage SEI).
• Administer daily application security functions (functional profile maintenance, access codes, user creation, password resets, etc.)
• Provide end user training and help desk assistance as needed.
• Provide advanced reporting and query authoring assistance to primary stake holders
• Assist developer team in the integration of X3 with other internal platforms.
• Manage and assist in data imports / exports.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 4 to 7 years of ERP systems administration experience with at least 1 to 2 years of experience directly with the Sage X3 product.
• Expert level understanding of SQL RDBMS and the Microsoft SQL Server platform.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to relay highly technical concepts to nontechnical stake holders in an understandable way.
• Understanding of WMS and ADC based floor operations is a plus.
• A fundamental understanding of accounting procedures for North American based company is a huge plus.

Additional Details:

• This is a full time position based out of our corporate headquarters in Pittsburg, KS.
• Remote / Work From Home is not available for this position.
• Full health insurance, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching.

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We are seeking a motivated self-starter to help support and maintain our IT infrastructure.  This is an entry level position that will assist the network administrator and other principal IT personnel in all matters related to hardware, software, and communication support relevant to the operations of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support end users in office and in floor operations with technical assistance for hardware and software.
• Assist in planning and deployment of IT needs for new projects and existing maintenance.
• Participate in the evaluation and piloting of new hardware and software within the organization.
• Evaluate and distinguish between end users’ needs vs wants and make the appropriate purchase recommendations to the department leads.
• Maintain a proper inventory of IT related equipment and software.
• Administer information security standards for end users requesting domain accounts, VPN network access, and etc.
• Train users on proper systems access protocols.
• Act as onsite support contact for network administrator when establishing new communication links from corporate to remote sites.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or documented equivalent experience.  Consideration will be given to those candidates with a nontechnical field degree, but you MUST be a technology-oriented person with a definitive understanding of different types of technology and how they interact in a business environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work nights and weekends during heavy seasonal sales periods (primarily around the 4^th of July and New Year’s Eve).
• The ability to travel (up to 50%) as necessary.

Additional Details:

• This is a full time position based out of our corporate headquarters in Pittsburg, KS.
• Remote / Work From Home is not available for this position.
• Full health insurance, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
• 401K retirement plan with company matching.

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