In BBC Home you’ll help build the next generation of the BBC online. Your work will be in front of tens of millions of people as we deliver world-class experiences via the BBC Homepage and use our Topics capability to power some of the BBC’s biggest products in News, Sport and programmes like Strictly Come Dancing or Dr Who.  You’ll be involved in the work we’re doing to make BBC online a more participatory experience.

Our vision is to bring together everything the BBC produces in a personalised way, through connected services that allow you to interact directly with the BBC.  By joining our team you will be given the opportunity to make a real difference to our mission to reinvent the BBC online for a new generation.

Our agile teams are made up of software engineers, testers, user experience designers, design researchers, product owners, business analysts and project managers, all striving to create extraordinary experiences for our audiences.

Learning, developing and sparking curiosity is part our culture, so you will be joining a team who really care about you, the development of your technical skills, your career aspirations and your contribution to our great team culture.

How we work

In BBC Home we build our products following Continuous Delivery practises on AWS with a strong focus on Node.JS and React.  Builds run with fully automated pipelines, deploying to live multiple times a day.

We build fully responsive web solutions across multiple devices using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and we create the back end services that drive them.  Our experiences are built on a new single-page-app web application framework. Our services are highly-available and highly scalable so we build following service-oriented architecture and micro-service architectural patterns.

We follow agile development methodologies and practice Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and advocate paired programming. 

We focus on the key non-functional requirements that are important to our audience - performance, security and accessibility.

We excel at collaboration and often we work closely with other teams in the BBC - and external companies - to push our capabilities further. Right now we’re operating as a remote-first team with colleagues in Glasgow, London and Salford. 

Role Responsibility

In BBC Home you’ll help build the next generation of the BBC online. Your work will be in front of tens of millions of people as we deliver world-class experiences via the BBC Homepage and use our Topics capability to power some of the BBC’s biggest products in News, Sport and programmes like Strictly Come Dancing or Dr Who.  You’ll be involved in the work we’re doing to make BBC online a more participatory experience.

Our vision is to bring together everything the BBC produces in a personalised way, through connected services that allow you to interact directly with the BBC.  By joining our team you will be given the opportunity to make a real difference to our mission to reinvent the BBC online for a new generation.

Our agile teams are made up of software engineers, testers, user experience designers, design researchers, product owners, business analysts and project managers, all striving to create extraordinary experiences for our audiences.

Learning, developing and sparking curiosity is part our culture, so you will be joining a team who really care about you, the development of your technical skills, your career aspirations and your contribution to our great team culture.

How we work

In BBC Home we build our products following Continuous Delivery practises on AWS with a strong focus on Node.JS and React.  Builds run with fully automated pipelines, deploying to live multiple times a day.

We build fully responsive web solutions across multiple devices using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and we create the back end services that drive them.  Our experiences are built on a new single-page-app web application framework. Our services are highly-available and highly scalable so we build following service-oriented architecture and micro-service architectural patterns.

We follow agile development methodologies and practice Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and advocate paired programming. 

We focus on the key non-functional requirements that are important to our audience - performance, security and accessibility.

We excel at collaboration and often we work closely with other teams in the BBC - and external companies - to push our capabilities further. Right now we’re operating as a remote-first team with colleagues in Glasgow, London and Salford. 

What we’re looking for

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

You’ll work across multiple product areas, taking opportunities to bring objectives together and ensure we efficiently tackle common problems.

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 BBC Home - defining and teaching practices such as CI/CD, TDD, cloud architectures and pair/mob programming.

You’ll have experience of mentoring team members of all levels 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 be able to contribute to the technical vision and long-term technical strategy within BBC Home.

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)

Have experience of test driven development, with both unit and integration tests

Have experience of working in an agile team

Mentor and support peers, actively advocating for best practise

Package Description

Band: 

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Glasgow, Scotland, Cardiff, Salford or Flexible

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.