Job Introduction

The BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch the BBC.

It is an exciting time to join the team as we’ve got many exciting goals we’re working towards. This is a place where your work impacts millions of iPlayer users every day. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country.

We’re looking for passionate Software Engineers to join a fast-paced cross-discipline agile team iterating on key iPlayer functionality. You will be a backend engineer tackling a wide range of technical tasks that drive our products forward.

Role Responsibility

• Design, develop & release working software using best practices
• Pair-program with other team members
• Learn new technologies and adapt to change
• Promote skills and knowledge sharing
• Work in a cross-discipline environment
• Understand and contribute to product goals/priorities

The Ideal Candidate

Why Chose us?

This is a place where your work impacts millions of iPlayer users every day. You will have an opportunity to work on software that needs to be able to handle billions of requests per week. We provide you with a great work-life balance and work package. This is also a great opportunity to grow your career within the team or wider organisation.
 

Our world class BBC Academy is here to ensure you have the training courses needed to advance in your career, from leadership training to technical training such as AWS, cloud architecture and micro-services, to name a few.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in building scalable REST or GraphQL APIs (Node.JS/TypeScript)
• Highly proficient developing software using TDD/BDD techniques
• Proficient in using SQL/NoSQL databases (Postgres and Redis)
• Ability to acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies
• Experience of building cloud-native scalable architecture
• Ability to work with stakeholders from Product, Architecture, UX and Delivery to assess feasibility of requirements

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Hands on experience of AWS technologies
• Experience of agile delivery practices
• Experience with DevOps

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford

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 Date10 October, 2022