BBC Design + Engineering are the team that’s building the future of the BBC, delivering TV, radio and online services to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, every day. As well as being behind iPlayer, Sounds and the News, Sports and Children’s services, we develop, support and maintain the systems and infrastructure that keeps the BBC on air, and we are responsible for the biggest British-run digital service in the world.

Commercial Digital are a multi-function delivery team focused on delivery of world class direct-to-consumer and business-to-business solutions aligned to BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC.

As a Senior Software Engineer within the team, you will help to define and build products that run at scale and have a global reach.

We are looking for someone who wants to have an impact on how our products move forward with technology. Your primary focus will be help shape and deliver a proposed, ground-breaking global D2C offering working with multiple teams and technologies – internally and externally – across the globe.

You will join a team where everyone - including you – strives to better understand our customers and improve the our products on a daily basis.

This role provides the opportunity to be part of an exciting and entrepreneurial internationally focused team that values creativity and proactive problem-solving.

Role Responsibility

You will identify and implement suitable technical solutions and implement business innovation.

In collaboration with BA, you will understand business requirements in order to design media systems and create implementable solutions.

You will be performing code reviews, developing expertise in new and existing technologies and lead the introduction of them where appropriate.

Producing technical documentation as part of project and product delivery, you will be responsible for the provision of technical advice and consultancy across a range of projects.

Furthermore, you will build automated processes and conduct testing, while applying best security practices.

The above responsibilities will enable you to act as a role model to other team members, providing technical leadership.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate should have the following responsibilities: 

Essential:

• Dev-ops and Agile principles
• AWS platform
• node.js
• SQL and/or NoSQL database systems
• Test automation

Desirable:

• Terraform
• Lambda / serverless applications
• Docker
• RESTful APIs
• CI/CD workflows
• Experience with media / streaming platforms

To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to work independently, as well as in a team; deal with uncertainty, and have the potential to bring all projects to a satisfactory conclusion.

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London

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 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Closing Date03 October, 2022