Software Developer

Do you have a passion for building, enhancing and maintaining robust software solutions that solve real-world problems? Join Spectrum as a Software Developer and help drive the evolution of business-critical systems. Collaborate with talented teams and make a direct impact by optimizing performance and supporting innovative projects that power Spectrum’s success.

This position is in an office environment with a hybrid work schedule. Eligible employees can work from home up to one day each week.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Develop, modify, test and implement software systems that support new or existing business initiatives
• Perform coding, unit testing and integration testing to ensure software meets business and technical requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to identify issues, recommend solutions and communicate remediation plans
• Serve as a secondary escalation point to resolve incidents and problems for production applications and web services
• Write and maintain technical documentation and generate complex reports using database management and data extraction techniques
• Participate in code review sessions and continuous improvement discussions to enhance software standards and processes
• Mentor and coach less experienced colleagues, contributing to a high-performing team environment
• Provide general system users and management with system analysis and feedback and train on specialized features and functions
• Influence system design by identifying and recommending design and requirements needs for software enhancements while following established configuration and change control processes

What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related field or equivalent work experience

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience with database management systems
• 3-5 years of experience in coding, testing and software design
• 3-5 years of experience with software development methodologies

Skills

• Knowledge of Voice, Data, Video and Wireless technologies
• Understanding of software design patterns and principles
• Skill in evaluating system performance and recommending improvements
• Capacity to handle ambiguity and incomplete information when making decisions
• Collaborate within a team and manage individual tasks independently
• Strong technical knowledge of information technology and computer systems
• Effective written, interpersonal and presentation communication skills, with the ability to interact and negotiate with business stakeholders
• Creative and abstract thinking to design innovative business solutions
• Proven ability to independently design, develop and deploy solutions, delivering projects with minimal supervision
• Willingness to consider and evaluate all opinions, contributing to a shared standard of excellence
• Read, write, speak, and understand English

Preferred Qualifications
Skills

• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts and patterns
• Experience designing RAG pipelines
• Proficiency with vector databases, embeddings, document chunking & preprocessing
• Strong proficiency in one or more languages: Python (preferred)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, code review practices, and testing frameworks (unit/integration)
• Understanding of large language models (LLMs) concepts.
• Experience using LLM APIs.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering