Job Introduction

BBC iPlayer is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands, and we’re looking for passionate members to join our collaborative, cross-discipline, agile teams. We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.

 It is an exciting time to join the team, as our mission is to be the future of BBC TV. This is a place where your work impacts millions of iPlayer users every day. You will have the opportunity to lead the iPlayer Recommendations team that powers every personalised user experience across the iPlayer client family (TV, Mobile and Web).

 As a Senior Software Engineering in the team you will work closely with the Team Lead, Data Engineers and Data Scientist to implement the code and infrastructure that generate recommendations using machine learning techniques and other algorithms and integrate with the broader BBC recommendation technology

Role Responsibility

The role in our iPlayer Recommendations team centres around researching and building recommendation engines to solve the personalisation and relevance opportunities for the iPlayer audiences.

You will be working to develop and own our internal and externally facing solutions using a wide range of technologies and cloud infrastructure. 

• Be accountable for the design and development of effective software that meets given the complex, strategic business needs for immediate team and broader BBC
• Promote alignment of the teams products and services with BBC technology and architecture strategy
• Provide technical knowledge and insight to peers and colleagues
• Review and give constructive feedback on others’ code
• Ensure the team’s software works well in its operating environment
• Troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle including out of hours support for incident resolution
• Define and document the team’s best practice and standards
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s delivery and development processes
• Mentor more junior software engineering team members
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies, and help introduce them where appropriate

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a person with a passion to always improve, who is willing to learn from and share your knowledge with other people. It's okay if you don't have all of the experience. Tell us why you're a suitable candidate in your questionnaire:

• Knowledge of recommendation algorithms, tools and technology
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies – AWS
• Growth mindset, willing to learn and share knowledge
• Experience in Leading or Mentoring a team of engineers, it's okay if you don't
• Knowledge of  Python, Spark, AWS GLU and other ML technology
• A passion for data and recommendations engines

Package Description

Band: D
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 Date30 September, 2022