Grails Web Developer

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 has 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.