Principal Full Stack Software Engineer I
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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.
BE PART OF THE CONNECTION
As a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer I, you are responsible for collaborating on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and software solutions used in Charter’s internal experimentation platform. You will build, deploy, and manage software solutions in a full stack environment (AWS components, MySQL databases, Redis, Prisma ORM, Node.js GraphQL APIs/services, and a Next.js React application) in accordance with program needs as part of the Distillery team.
The Distillery team is responsible for expanding, maintaining, and supporting Charter’s bespoke, enterprise-level experimentation and configuration management platform. The Distillery team facilitates experimentation and configuration management through a web-based GUI and supporting services that allow users to draft and deploy A/B tests, progressive deployments, and JSON configuration changes.
WHAT OUR PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST
Software Solutions (75% - hands on development)
- Help architect robust, scalable software solutions, including UI components, microservices, database tables, and infrastructure components to meet the needs of our experimentation and configuration management stakeholders
- Develop software solutions and infrastructure with adequate testing and monitoring to ensure a quality, stable user experience
- Deploy, test, and troubleshoot software applications
- Builds, maintains, and enhances the systems for experimentation and configuration management
- Hands-on implementation and prototyping of software solutions
Technical Leadership (15%)
- Guide a team of software engineers in the best practices around full stack software engineering
- Review code to ensure business outcomes and cost/benefit balanced performance is achieved
- Technical support for our software solutions (occasionally on-call)
- Advocate automated unit and integration testing, promoting test-driven development when practical
- Provide effort estimates
- Help prioritize the technical backlog and advocate for resolving technical debt
Establishing Requirements and Stakeholder Relationships (5%)
- Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, designers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand how our experimentation and configuration management platform will be used and define a solution to satisfy those requirements
- Convert business requirements into technical requirements with a focus on a high-performance, low-maintenance strategy and architecture
- Technical product owner for software solutions
- Acts as a liaison between the software engineering team and stakeholder technical teams
- Support the achievement of the experimentation group’s stated goals and outcomes
Documentation and Standards (5%)
- Develops software and system architecture diagrams representing existing and future state solutions
- Document experimentation systems and workflows
- Present our solutions to leadership
Enforce coding standards and ensure good code hygiene
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 React and front-end web technologies
- Expert knowledge and implementation with open-source software such as React
- React, Micro Frontends, RESTful Web services, GraphQL, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Git, continuous integration testing, and Unit Testing
- Databases (Relational and NoSQL), RESTful web services, AWS, Micro services, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Apache open-source libraries, Git, continuous integration testing, shell scripting
- 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
- Experience working with open-source software
- 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
- 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:
- Recent experience primarily focused on React, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and GraphQL
- Strong experience with AWS & Terraform and MySQL
- Agile development experience
- Familiarity with Nest.js, Elasticache, Redis, Prisma, DataDog, Splunk, Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Superset, Python, Java, GitLab
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.
- Total Rewards: See all the ways we invest in you—at work and in life
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This job posting will remain open until 2025-02-03 12:00 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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