Principal Software Engineer I

Spectrum's Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation's fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum's Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.
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As a Principal Software Engineer I o n the "Data Platforms" team, you will lead a high performing Generative AI enablement platform team which enables charter employees to leverage AI capabilities to enhance productivity. Data driven decision-making is a core tenant of Spectrum, and the SpectrumGPT team enables this process. This role will work to help the team prioritize, build, and ship the most impactful AI features to Charter's employees and serve as a mentor to help guide and train other engineers on the team. This position will evaluate the needs, time limitations, and system limitations when developing software. This position must remain up to date on new technologies and software development practices, and is able to translate these skills to their team's deliverables.
WHAT OUR PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Contribute to the technical direction, execution and final decisions for all software solutions created (includes information architecture, software architecture, software design, testing, automation, analytics and instrumentation).
• Design, implement, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot systems in assigned areas.
• Analyze, revise and document difficulties in existing system logic.
• Lead multiple teams spanning various technical disciplines including but not limited to web and app development and testing.
• Manage high performing teams by leading, developing, training, hiring, and providing effective coaching to attract and foster talent.
• Regularly attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to issues.
• Take ownership and make technical decisions on software development projects.
• Develop and implement software according to proposals.
• Estimate scope of work and implement software proposals.
• Create project documentation.
• Keep current with trends and technological innovations in the industry in order to contribute to the execution of proofs-of-concept for new approaches.
• Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.
• Participate in collaborations with business and technical teams to review conflicts/gaps between functional goals and existing capabilities.
• Adhere to best practices for code development, version control, continuous integration/delivery, and test/build automation.
• Comfortable defining and evangelizing mobile app and web technologies across the organization.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO SPECTRUM
Required Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Technical skills:
  • Development experience in Angular and front-end web technologies
  • Expert knowledge and implementation with open source software such as Angular or React
  • Angular, Micro Frontends, RESTful Web services, GraphQL, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Git, continuous integration testing, and Unit Testing
  • Java, Spring, Google Guice, JPA/Hibernate, Databases (Relational and NoSQL), RESTful web services, AWS, Micro services, Netflix OSS, Jersey, SOAP web services, Axis, JMS, ESB's, XML, XSD, XSL, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Apache open source libraries, Maven, Git, Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ, continuous integration testing, shell scripting, Ruby
  • Adhere to best practices for code development, version control, continuous integration/delivery, and test/build automation.
  • Comfortable defining and evangelizing mobile app and web technologies across the organization
  • Familiarity with dependency management and build systems like Maven and Ant
  • Experience working with open source software such as Spring, Google Guice, Guava, Tomcat, and NoSQL solutions
• Skills:
  • Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.
  • Participate in collaborations with business and technical teams to review conflicts/gaps between functional goals and existing capabilities.
  • Thorough understanding of software engineering and object oriented design principles
  • Demonstrated in-depth and knowledge of front-end development across Java, mobile app and/or web technologies
• Abilities:
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
  • Ability to take ownership and make technical decisions on software development projects
  • Ability to keep current with trends and technological innovations in the industry in order to contribute to the execution of proofs-of-concept for new approaches
  • Hands on approach
• Travel Ability: Office Environment
• Schedule:
  • Full time
  • This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Python & Node.js, including its various packages and ecosystem.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API development and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with automated unit testing and testing platforms.
• Experience with OpenAI integrations
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other cloud providers and its range of services.
• Experience with relational (MySQL), non-relational databases such as Postgres and Vector DB's such as Postgres Vector DB / Milvus etc.,
• Thorough understanding of code versioning tools, particularly Git.
• Proven experience with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical abilities and troubleshooting skills.

SPECTRUM CONNECTS YOU TO MORE

• Innovative Tools & Tech: Work with high-performing software and applications on the forefront of the digital telecommunications industry.
• Dynamic Growth: The growth of our industry and evolving technology will power your career as you move up or around the company.
• Supportive Teams: Who you are matters here. And, we aim to foster an inclusive workplace where every person is empowered to bring their best ideas.
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This job posting will remain open until 2025-08-15 06:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,800.00 and $196,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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