Role Responsibility

Over the next 12 months you will:

• Implement personalisation features for BBC Sounds
• Help to improve and scale our AWS based infrastructure
• Help monitor performance of new functionality and offer ideas on how it could be improved
• Improve programme metadata pipelines
• Advise product managers and project managers on the complexities of planned work, including providing time and resource estimates in the planning of projects
•  Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Familiarity with Scala, or strong experience with another backend language and a willingness to learn Scala
• Experience of building or maintaining infrastructure on cloud platforms (we use AWS)
• Familiarity with version control systems (We use Git)
• Experience of writing unit tests and TDD

Desirable

• Experience developing complex AWS infrastructure
• Familiarity with JVM languages generally
• Experience of working with Play, Spray, Akka
• Experience of project and issue tracking tools  (we use Jira)
• Love of Music. Radio. Podcasts.

Package Description

Band: C
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 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.