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