The BBC Mobile Platform, part of Media Services, is an integral part of the BBC's Digital strategy, delivering consistent user experiences and core functionality across the BBC's mobile estate.

As a Software Engineer within Mobile Playback, you’ll be joining a team of engineers developing our Media Player components, the core playback engine of all video and audio content across the BBC online. The BBC is recognised throughout the world for the quality of the content that we produce and the programmes that we broadcast. We are looking for high calibre developers with a passion for technology to help us transform the experience for our audience when consuming media in the digital age.

The media components we build are right at the heart of the BBC’s best­ loved products including iPlayer, Sounds, News and Sport to name just a few.  Whether you’re catching up on last night’s episode of EastEnders, listening to Radio 1 or jumping right into live sporting action, our media player provides a robust, reliable and consistent playback experience.

Role Responsibility

As a Software Engineer you will contribute to the development of features, fix bugs and issues, review code from others in the team and make a key contribution to the entire development lifecycle, from conception, discovery through development and delivery.  

We care about code quality and clean architecture.  We work in Kotlin and Java (Android) and Swift and Objective-C (iOS) so you will need experience writing software for at least one of these platforms.  You'll be happy to discuss technical details with the rest of the engineering team, contributing to discussions and communicating your own ideas. 

You will also have opportunities to grow and specialise. We want you to be passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can have.  You’ll need a desire to keep learning and growing, which support with cross-team groups, meet-ups and chapters focussed on topics such as Android and iOS development, accessibility, security, development practices, continuous delivery and many other areas of interest.

We are looking for an experienced engineer who is excited by, and keen to pursue a career working with mobile software components.  You will care about quality code, love collaboration, experimentation and are a confident communicator.

You will be interested in mastering your test driven development approach to produce systems isolated from framework dependencies.

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful we don't need you to have experience with all of the below so when you apply highlight what you do have experience with.

Essential

Proven experience in mobile development experience in one or more of the following languages:  Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C.

Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies.

A good understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design.

Demonstrable Test Driven Development

A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments

Experience of managing code in source control systems such as Github

Beneficial

A solid grounding of object orientated programming techniques and a good understanding of software design patterns.

An ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Experience of using continuous integration tools like Jenkins.

Experience of working with bug tracking tools (eg. Jira) and wikis (eg. Confluence)

API development and management

Desirable

Experience developing media players for mobile platforms.

Experience of media streaming protocols and standards (eg. HLS, MPEG DASH).

Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment

Experience working in agile teams.

Experience of pair programming.

Experience developing for memory­ constrained devices.

Linux administration, shell scripting

Experience of Amazon Web Services

Building and managing Jenkins Pipelines

To be successful we don't need you to have experience with all of the above so when you apply highlight what you do have experience with.

Package Description

Band: C

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Manchester Media City 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 – 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.