Role Responsibility

 What we’re looking for

This role is within our Data Capabilities team, which has a focus on building and delivering new backend services for audience facing products to use like the BBC Homepage and Topics.

• We build and maintain the Programmes API, a JSON API to get BBC programmes data such as information about brands, series, episodes and clips.
• We build and maintain MQL, which is a lightweight, generic approach to query BBC content metadata allowing us to create more dynamic web and app experiences, especially relevant for personalisation features.
• We are also responsible to maintain the /programmes website and database in production.

In the coming months, we will be building on top of these products, adding reacher features, exploring new capabilities and experimenting how we can use the vast amount of data that BBC disposes to power more dynamic and personalised experiences for end users. In the team, we are not only implementing features to these APIs, but we also manage the infrastructure, monitoring, maintainance, performance and security required to run these services in production. We are using Node.JS and many different AWS services, with a preference for serverless when possible, that we compose together to build our products. Some of the technologies we use include CDK, Lambda, OpenSearch, EventBridge, SQS, CodeBuild & CodePipeline, API Gateway, AppSync, Cloudwatch…

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be expected to take a lead in the design and implementation of software applications, ensure on time delivery of robust, industry leading solutions.

You’ll have a strong background in software development and in depth knowledge of design principles and patterns.

You’ll drive engineering best practices within your team - helping implement and ensure we follow good practices such as CI/CD, TDD, infrastructure as code, cloud architectures and pair/mob programming.

You’ll have some experience of mentoring junior team members and be committed to helping with their development.

You’ll love learning new technologies and are able to evaluate them and apply these to a variety of projects.

You’ll have a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.  You’ll promote your skills, share your knowledge and contribute to the evolution of best practices throughout the department and the BBC.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for this role will:

• Actively encourage pairing and working collaboratively with the team
• Have strong development skills and experience building applications (ideally in Node.JS and using AWS technologies)
• Have experience of test driven development, with both unit and integration tests
• Have experience of infrastructure as code and devops practices
• Have experience of working in an agile team
• Mentor and support peers, actively advocating for best practices