Role Responsibility

What we’re looking for

This role is within our Data Capabilities team, which has a focus on building and delivering new backend services for audience facing products to use like the BBC Homepage and Topics.

• We build and maintain the Programmes API, a JSON API to get BBC programmes data such as information about brands, series, episodes and clips.
• We build and maintain MQL, which is a lightweight, generic approach to query BBC content metadata allowing us to create more dynamic web and app experiences, especially relevant for personalisation features.
• We are also responsible to maintain the /programmes website and database in production.

In the coming months, we will be building on top of these products, adding reacher features, exploring new capabilities and experimenting how we can use the vast amount of data that BBC disposes to power more dynamic and personalised experiences for end users. In the team, we are not only implementing features to these APIs, but we also manage the infrastructure, monitoring, maintainance, performance and security required to run these services in production. We are using Node.JS and many different AWS services, with a preference for serverless when possible, that we compose together to build our products. Some of the technologies we use include CDK, Lambda, OpenSearch, EventBridge, SQS, CodeBuild & CodePipeline, API Gateway, AppSync, Cloudwatch…

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.

You’ll drive engineering best practices within your team - helping implement and ensure we follow good practices such as CI/CD, TDD, infrastructure as code, 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

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 infrastructure as code and devops practices
• Have experience of working in an agile team
• Mentor and support peers, actively advocating for best practices

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow,

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 â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ 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/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/