Principal Software Engineer I

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
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.
Spectrum's Video Software department delivers best-in-class entertainment experiences through the Spectrum TV application and supporting services and platforms, serving tens of millions of customers.
BE PART OF THE CONNECTION
As a Principal Software Engineer I on the Spectrum TV team, you will drive technical architecture decisions and provide technical leadership to a high-performing front-end engineering team. You will architect, develop, and deploy impactful features for Charter's Spectrum TV customers across multiple streaming platforms including Xumo Stream Box, Xumo TV, Samsung, LG, Vizio, Xbox, Chromecast, and more. You will assess complex system trade-offs involving performance, scalability, timeline, and resource constraints. Additionally, you will evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices, strategically championing innovations that enhance product quality and development velocity.
WHAT OUR PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST

• Leading the implementation of innovative, high-impact, customer-facing features across numerous Spectrum TV platforms
• Delivering a best-in-class entertainment experience enjoyed by tens of millions of customers
• Utilizing and further developing their skills in the latest and greatest front-end technologies such as ReactJS
• Deep-diving into the video streaming vertical of software engineering, requiring creative utilization of front-end technologies and extensive performance optimizations
• Working on a development team of engaged, talented engineers invested in delivering first-class experiences

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

• Extensive front-end development experience with ReactJS, TypeScript, and Redux
• Experience building web-based video streaming experiences on various 10-foot platforms such as:
• Samsung TV
• LG TV
• Vizio TV
• Xbox
• Chromecast
• Etc.
• Experience with various video players such as Shaka
• Experience with DRM and DAI technology and implementation
• Agile experience

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A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-10-10 06:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,660.00 and $196,460.00. 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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