Job Description
Job DescriptionFull-Stack Java and React Developer
Build and modernize mission-critical web applications that connect secure Java services with responsive React interfaces. This role owns development across the stack, from REST APIs and relational data through front-end behavior, testing, and deployment.
The best fit is a mid-to-senior full-stack engineer with 5-10 years of hands-on Java and React experience who can work in a structured, security-conscious environment and collaborate effectively with systems, UX, database, and DevSecOps partners.
Location: Andover, MA or Tucson, AZ
Schedule: First shift, 40 hours per week
Work Setting: Hybrid - three days per week onsite at the selected office
Role Type: Contract
Contract Duration: Approximately 6 months, with potential to extend or convert based on performance, business need, funding, and client approval
Openings: 1
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance; work begins at the unclassified level
Pay Rate: $64.00-$75.00 per hour
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Develop RESTful APIs and secure service integrations between front-end applications, backend services, identity platforms, and relational databases.
- Translate system and user requirements into maintainable application components, reusable interfaces, and reliable data flows.
- Partner with UI/UX designers, systems engineers, database administrators, cybersecurity personnel, and other developers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Participate in peer reviews, automated and integration testing, defect resolution, and CI/CD deployment activities.
- Troubleshoot application behavior across the stack and improve reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Support modernization or migration of legacy applications into current web architectures while protecting required functionality and interfaces.
- Produce clear technical documentation and follow program-specific security, coding, configuration-management, and compliance standards.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years of professional full-stack software development experience.
- Strong production experience with Java and Spring Boot on the backend and React on the frontend.
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot RESTful APIs.
- Strong foundation in object-oriented design, secure web development, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Experience with at least one relational database such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL.
- Working experience with Git, automated build and deployment pipelines, code review, and Agile delivery practices.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- Ability to work onsite three days per week in Andover, Massachusetts or Tucson, Arizona.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering software for aerospace, defense, federal, or another regulated and security-sensitive environment.
- Experience with Redux, Next.js, or a comparable React state-management or application framework.
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Experience integrating OAuth 2.0, SAML, or comparable identity and access-management services.
- Experience modernizing legacy Java or web applications and supporting secure deployment environments.
Benefits
Eligible full-time CRG contract employees working at least 30 hours per week may enroll in CRG benefits. Coverage begins on the first day of the month following 30 days after hire.
- Three Aetna medical plan options, including an HSA-compatible option; in-network preventive care is covered in full
- Voluntary dental and vision coverage
- $25,000 in company-paid basic life and AD&D coverage for employees enrolled in a CRG medical plan
- Voluntary life and AD&D, short-term disability, long-term disability, and accident coverage
- Employee-assistance resources and benefit-advocacy support
- Weekly pay and direct deposit
- Referral bonus opportunities
- Support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment
- 401(k) eligibility after 12 months as a CRG employee
Official CRG plan documents and carrier materials control eligibility, coverage, exclusions, limits, waiting periods, payroll deductions, and employee costs.
Employees whose primary work location is Massachusetts or Arizona accrue paid sick time at one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours, or five eight-hour days, per year, subject to applicable law and CRG policy.