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.

Role Responsibility

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 using Node.JS, Elasticsearch, GraphQL and lambdas on AWS.  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.

The Ideal Candidate

This role is within our Participation team, which has a focus on delivering interactive and engaging content formats.

We’re responsible for the front-end commenting experience across sites like News, Sport and CBBC.

We build and maintain the pan-BBC uploader which lets the audience send in user-generated content and enter competitions for popular shows like Springwatch and Watchdog.

We provide a mechanism for hosting quizzes, polls and votes on their websites.

And right now we’re working on a new proposition to allow the audience to build a deeper relationship with their most loved topics and programmes. You can think of us as working horizontally across the BBC’s most popular online services.

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 - with a strong focus on mobile technologies.

You’ll drive engineering best practices within your team - helping implement and ensure we implement well practices such as CI/CD, TDD, 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 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 working in an agile team.

Mentor and support peers, actively advocating for best practice.

Package Description

Band: D

Contract type: Permanent - Full Time 

Location: Salford / Glasgow, United Kingdom

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.