Job Introduction

This role is within the Move & Store team, which is part of the Archive Services and Technologies department within Design + Engineering. 

Move & Store's mission is to enable content to get in, around, and out the BBC and for it to be findable by others who need it.

You'll join a team of engineers who developed the BBC’s File-Based Delivery product, which gets media files from production companies into the broadcast chain, and are developing a set of new API-based components to transform the way the BBC handles media in the future, linking-up a diverse range of content stores from across the organisation.

This year we have plans to work on many interesting challenges, some of which are:

• Building systems to allow the BBC to ingest and process Ultra High-Definition (UHD) content
• Expanding our graph database which maps several petabyte-scale archives
• Using our AWS cloud expertise to break away from expensive on-prem storage systems

We are recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer, and we welcome candidates from any location in the UK. The whole team are working remotely and flexibly through the pandemic, working in a wide range of situations with work commitments fitting around each. Once restrictions are lifted, the role will involve spending some days in London for collaboration sessions, all-hands meetings, and team social events.

As a team, we value diversity, collaboration, and Getting Stuff Done.  We support each other, and we succeed (or fail) as a team.

Role Responsibility

• Develop backend micro-services in both Java and node.js, using your experience to guide the team when making design decisions
• Build web APIs and applications for use by other teams within the BBC and our suppliers, collaborating with others to understand their requirements
• Promote reliability, scalability, security, and performance throughout the team's work
• Review and give feedback on others’ code, especially supporting the growth of our junior engineers
• Write appropriate tests and promote the use of automated test-driven techniques for ensuring code quality
• Effectively participate in the team's agile software development methodologies, such as pair-programming, using Jira tickets, and continuous delivery
• Embrace our DevOps culture, working closely with operations teams to resolve and reduce production issues

The Ideal Candidate

• Quick to learn and an embracer of change
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Experienced in modern Java or node.js development of microservice-based architectures
• Effective at collaborating within a team – able to speak up, challenge, agree and commit
• Experienced in the use of agile methodologies and across the full product lifecycle
• Familiar with AWS products such as EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, CloudFormation

You likely won’t be an expert in all of these areas, but if you feel that we could learn from each other, then we’d like to hear from you.  

You may already be a Senior Software Engineer and are looking for a new challenge or to broaden your experience; we can provide a supportive environment for you to explore the technology and systems that drive both digital and broadcast experiences for the audience, with a focus on building evidence for the next step in your career. Alternatively, you may be a Software Engineer looking to take that next step; the team have supported many colleagues in progressing their careers and moving through the job family. Finally, you may be an experienced colleague from an aligned job family looking for a different type of role; if you feel that this role is right for you, we would be very keen to support that. 

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Continuing
Location: London with flexible working

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