Principal Developer I

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Full Time Maryland Heights, Missouri Posted 09/16/2025 Business unit: Product and Technology Areas of interest: Development Requisition Number: 2025-59281 ISW600
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 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.


As a Principal Developer I o­­n the IT Service Activation (ITSA) team, you'll be Responsible for engineering activities that maintain and enhance the company's telecommunications and signal processing hardware, software and electrical systems. Works with technical operations staff on system design and configuration. Works with design teams and advises team leaders.


WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO SPECTRUM

Required Qualifications

  • Experience:
    • IT Work experience designing/configuring systems/applications working in development (restful service development, micro services, Springboot) - 8+ years
    • IT Work experience working with Relational Databases (SQL based) (experience should be commensurate with working in several areas of IT to understand a generalist perspective of the end to end lifecycle of a system) - 6+ years
  • Education:
    • BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

    • Advanced knowledge of Micro-services architecture desirable
    • Experience working in Telecommunications industry
    • Technology agnostic and experience working with multiple technologies stacks
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Developer Professional Certification
  • Technical Skills:
    • Advanced knowledge of OOP (object oriented programming) & prototypal inheritance
    • Advanced working knowledge and experience with Spring framework (Spring Boot).
    • Advanced knowledge of language based programming (i.e. Java 8 currently used)
    • Advanced knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, and writing shell scripts
    • Advanced knowledge of web services development both Restful and SOAP
    • Advanced knowledge of Tomcat server
    • Advanced knowledge of Unit Testing frameworks and continuous integration tools
    • Advanced knowledge of Maven
    • Advanced knowledge of Git version control system
    • Advanced knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
    • Advanced knowledge in TCP/IP and the OSI Model
    • Advanced knowledge of network devices and basic network appliances
    • Advanced knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
    • Knowledge of at least two application server platforms (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBOSS, etc.)
    • Knowledge of at least three development languages ((Java 8, JavaScript, C/C++, ObjectiveC, Perl, Python, ASP/.Net, Go, React, Angular, Hadoop, SQL,)
    • Knowledge of at least three development or test automation tools (ANT, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, JUnit, JMeter, etc.)
    • Advanced knowledge of Unified Inventory management, the Oracle COTs product.
    • Advanced knowledge of Oracle design studio, Cartridge modeling capabilities, Oracle UI customization using ADF.
    • Advanced knowledge of UIM Core Product APIs, Rulesets architecture.
  • Skills:
    • Basic knowledge of OSS/BSS infrastructure technologies and concepts
  • Abilities:
    • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
    • Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
    • Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Ability to demonstrate lateral thinking required to solve complex technical problems to provide outside the box solutions.
    • Ability to perform duties in a dynamic technological environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
  • 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

ISW600 2025-59281 2025

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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.


Get to Know Us Charter Communications is known by our Spectrum products and services, including: Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice, Spectrum Networks, Spectrum Business and Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S. Watch this video to learn more.

Grow Your Career Here We’re committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve – providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans. Learn about Life at Spectrum.

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