OpenInsight Developer

Our Mission

Our mission is to keep the workforce safe on the job by providing comfortable, high-quality protective footwear—helping reduce accidents and save money.

About Shoes For Crews, LLC (SFC)

Shoes For Crews is a dynamic designer, manufacturer, and B2B marketer of technologically advanced, top-rated slip-resistant footwear serving the foodservice, hospitality, industrial, and healthcare industries, protecting over 3.5 million workers annually across more than 120,000 workplaces. For over 30 years, we’ve built our reputation on innovation, proprietary manufacturing, and targeted niche market excellence.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced OpenInsight Developer who combines deep expertise in MultiValue/OpenInsight systems with the technical vision and leadership to move the organization toward modern platforms. This role supports both the stability of our current OpenInsight environment and the long-term strategy of migrating critical systems to contemporary technologies.

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Has deep, hands-on expertise developing and maintaining OpenInsight applications

• Can manage, mentor, and lead a team of OpenInsight developers

• Understands how to keep OpenInsight environments stable, performant, and well-documented

• Can reverse-engineer legacy systems and translate them into modern architectural blueprints

• Bridges the gap between legacy MultiValue systems and modern SQL, cloud, or API-based platforms

• Embraces AI as a practical development tool—using it to write, review, document, and test code more effectively

• Communicates technical concepts clearly to both developers and non-technical stakeholders

• Thrives in a structured, ticket-driven environment and takes ownership of deliverables end-to-end

You will act as a key technical leader and systems steward, ensuring the reliability of our OpenInsight platform today while actively driving the roadmap toward modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy applications in OpenInsight and related MultiValue technologies

• Implement system enhancements, custom reports, and data imports/exports to support evolving business requirements

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and write test cases that validate both new and existing code changes

• Perform plan builds and validate test logic prior to implementation in production environments

• Review and ensure code quality, consistency, and adherence to development standards across the team

• Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar tools) to accelerate development, generate boilerplate code, and reduce repetitive manual coding tasks

• Use AI tools to assist with code review, identifying logic errors, potential bugs, and security vulnerabilities before deployment

• Apply AI-assisted testing tools to help generate test cases, identify edge cases, and improve test coverage across OpenInsight applications

OpenInsight Administration & System Maintenance

• Administer and maintain OpenInsight server environments, including version management, patching, and performance tuning

• Monitor system stability, availability, and data integrity of production OpenInsight applications

• Manage database structures, file definitions, and MultiValue data models within the OpenInsight environment

• Configure and maintain OpenInsight security, user access controls, and audit logging

• Establish and enforce backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures for OpenInsight systems

• Maintain development, test, and production environment separation and promotion procedures

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to OpenInsight application errors, data anomalies, and system performance

Team Leadership & Developer Management

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of OpenInsight developers, providing technical direction and code review

• Set development standards, coding conventions, and documentation requirements for the OpenInsight team

• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and skills development for OpenInsight development staff

• Assign and prioritize work across the development team in coordination with project managers and business stakeholders

• Facilitate knowledge transfer and cross-training to reduce single points of failure within the team

• Participate in project requirements, status review, and sprint planning meetings as the technical lead

Legacy System Documentation & Modernization Planning

• Extract and document specifications, business logic, data models, and workflows from existing OpenInsight systems

• Create technical documentation that enables developers unfamiliar with MultiValue to understand and re-implement system functionality

• Evaluate and recommend modern replacement platforms (e.g., .NET, cloud-based ERP, SQL Server, or API-driven architectures) suited to current business needs

• Lead or support migration initiatives that transition OpenInsight functionality to modern technologies with minimal business disruption

• Design data migration strategies to move MultiValue data structures into relational or cloud-based data stores

• Build integration bridges (APIs, ETL pipelines, or middleware) between legacy OpenInsight systems and modern platforms during transition phases

• Track and report modernization progress against roadmap milestones to IT leadership

• Use AI tools to assist with extracting, summarizing, and documenting business logic from legacy OpenInsight code, accelerating the discovery and specification phase of modernization projects

• Leverage AI-assisted code translation tools to help convert OpenInsight/MultiValue BASIC routines into modern language equivalents, validating output for accuracy and completeness

End User Support & Communication

• Provide Tier 2–3 support for issues reported from existing OpenInsight applications, testing and deploying fixes as required

• Monitor accuracy of incoming data and perform reconciliation processes to ensure data integrity

Shoes For Crews is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. Shoes For Crews provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and/or expression), pregnancy, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion, disability, marital status, age, genetic information, veteran status or any personal attribute or characteristic that is protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws.