Specialized Software Developer

Specialized Software Developer III

1^st Preference - St Louis - 4 days in the office (Charter Office)

Domain Telecom Domain is must

About the Role

Principal-level technical leader within Mobile organization owning architectural decisions and driving technical strategy across multiple teams. Deep hands-on expertise in Java/Spring Boot Oracle/SQL and Kafka required - with the ability to evaluate and adopt AI/ML capabilities.

What Youll Do

• Lead design and implementation of high-throughput distributed systems using Java and Spring Boot
• Own end-to-end technical architecture for cross-team initiatives (provisioning billing network customer/agent facing apps)
• Architect event-driven systems using Apache Kafka for real-time streaming and integration
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML tools into engineering workflows and developer productivity
• Establish engineering standards lead design reviews and mentor senior engineers
• Partner with product and architecture teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions
• Lead production incident response root cause analysis and systemic improvements
• Hands-on coding as needed to deliver technical and business features.

What You Bring

• 10 years overall and 8 years hands-on with Java (11) and Spring Boot
• Deep Oracle expertise - PL/SQL performance tuning query optimization data modeling
• Strong Kafka experience - producers consumers Kafka Streams schema registry
• Proven delivery of large-scale distributed systems in production
• RESTful API design microservices patterns CI/CD Docker/Kubernetes
• AI literacy - ability to evaluate AI tools and apply them to engineering problems
• Influence-based technical leadership across teams

Nice to Have

• Telecom network/mobile provisioning or billing systems experience
• MNO or MVNO experience
• AI/ML platforms