Senior Grails Developer/Technical Lead - London, UK
company: dealchecker.co.uk
type: Contract
posted on 04-Sep-2010
About role:
- Lead Grails developer required in Central London to play a key role in the design and development of innovative Web 2.0 applications.
- Working as part of a small team within a well-known online publisher you will be responsible for delivering exciting new products.
- You will be involved in managing an outsourced team in the Ukraine, do peer code reviews, contribute suggestions for new products, architecture + application design and technical leadership of other developers.
- You must have strong experience with building scalable applications.
- This role is perfectly suited to someone who is looking to be a CTO in a few years, we give you a lot of rope to learn.

About you:
- Hard working
- Committed
- Great communication skills - written/verbal
- Excited about technology (read geeky)
- Loves all things web

Must haves:
- Grails/Java/Groovy
- Spring/Hibernate
- SQL (ideally MySQL)
- Servlet container experience - e.g. Tomcat, Jetty
- XML technologies
- Web development - XHTML/GSP, AJAX, CSS, Javascript
- Team leadership experience
- Subversion (or other source control)
- Experience of working in an Agile environment
- a strong understanding of scalable web applications (caching, clustering, grid computing, etc)
- Lucene/Compass experience would be beneficial

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Please apply by emailing: andrewbredon at dealchecker.co.uk