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.
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our BryteIQ API Platform team. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, SRE practices, and scalable software development standards across the platform. You will serve as a technical leader, mentor, and strategist enabling the team to deliver high-quality APIs, integrations, and services that power Spectrum’s next-generation network capabilities.
As a Principal Software Engineer I on the Bryte IQ team, you will leading API design, development and support projects and helping engineering team(s) which build innovative customer experiences on the Charter Bryte IQ platform, Charter’s next generation products and/or other software systems. This role will work to help the team prioritize, build, and ship the most impactful features to Charter’s customers 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. Candidates in 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:
- RESTful API, JSON, HTML5, Typescript, Git, CICD, continuous integration testing, and Unit Testing
- Experience in SRE practices, monitoring, and observability (Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience in API development using TypeScript (Effect.ts), Python (Django), and PostgreSQL.
- Architecture design (C4 models, sequence diagrams), API solution design, and documentation standards.
- 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
- 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
- Agile Development experience
- Proven expertise in TypeScript (Effect.ts), Python (Django), SQL/PostgreSQL, and API development.
- Familiarity with functional programming concepts.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS EC2, EKS, Aurora DB, Secrets Manager), containerization (Docker), and CI/CD automation.
- Deep knowledge of SRE principles: reliability, availability, latency, error budgets, and incident response.
- Good Understanding of relational databases (Postgres DB) and Data Modeling.
- Hands-on experience with API security (OAuth 2.0, OpenAPI/Swagger).
- Demonstrated success in driving engineering culture, standards, and technical mentorship.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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This job posting will remain open until 2025-09-21 11:00 PM (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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We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects our communities, and providing equal opportunities for employment and advancement. Learn about our inclusive culture.