Grails Web Developer - Remote

Our clients are some of the most well-respected names in education, health, agriculture – working with associations and government agencies. Our projects aren’t just web applications – our solutions help our clients accomplish their mission which advances their causes. If you want something a little bit different, cutting edge, fun and challenging, then WebFirst is the place for you!

WebFirst (a Redhawk Company) as an exciting opportunity to stand up and support a syndication web application written in Grails. Tasks will involve updating and maintaining the code as needed, documenting the architecture and preparing the site for migration.

Qualifications:
• Grails and Spring Boot web application development experience
• 3+ years of experience with Java Web frameworks including Spring Boot and Grails
• 3+ years of development leadership experience on significant/successful web projects
• 5+ years of practical Java development experience
• Tiered application architectures and RESTful service definition/implementation
• Web based usability concepts, principles and standards
• Responsive design; graceful degradation/progressive enhancement; touch readiness
• Security architectures, considerations and Authentication/Authorization approaches
• Understands logging, monitoring and web analytics
• 3+ years of experience with MySQL and hibernate
• 3+ years of Experience with Client-side technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JavaScript libraries (i.e. jQuery, handlebars)
• Experience with Ajax enabled web application concepts
• Analysis and design experience using OO concepts and design patterns
• Experience with Development tooling options: Eclipse; Jenkins; Gradle; Tomcat
• Experience with using and pushing to private/internal Gradle repositories
• Experience using Git
• Demonstrable skill writing data access/persistence code
• Working knowledge of strong DevOPS procedures including the use of Git
• Ability and willingness to document code
• Team approach to developing applications
• Strong Communications skills

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with traditional waterfall and Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum
• Section 508 knowledge and familiarity with use of 508 test tools including SiteImprove or Monsido.

Applicant selected will be subject to a security investigation and background check. Candidate must pass a Public Trust clearance for federal contracting work.

Must be a U.S. Citizen

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