We’re looking for a talented software engineering Team lead to join the iPlayer and Sounds department, working on the BBC Sounds Radio and Music Services team in Glasgow. The BBC Sounds RMS team work alongside the BBC’s television and radio networks to deliver innovative and exciting online experiences around some of the best audio and video content in the world. We’re a multidisciplinary backend team developing services for the web on AWS using Scala and Java, following software engineering best practices and working in a Scrum-based agile fashion shipping incrementally and often.

We work closely with our client teams and editorial in BBC Radio, and as part of the broader iPlayer and Sounds group, share practice and knowledge with our equivalent teams in iPlayer. The BBC Engineering community as a whole is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. Our Engineers are all encouraged to do 10% time, which typically takes the form of a ‘hackday’ every two weeks where they can work on pet projects and personal development. Engineers are also encouraged to participate in “Guilds” - cross-department initiatives where individuals from different teams collaborate on shared problems such as Security, CI/CD or Documentation.

We’re looking for Software Engineering Team Lead who cares about creating performant and accessible applications, values communication and collaborative approaches to finding the right solution, and is willing and excited to learn new skills and share their knowledge with others.

Role Responsibility

Over the next 12 months you will:

• Lead a team of 5-6 Software Engineers working on our suite of microservices
• Drive technical direction and decision-making
• Mentor other engineers
• Develop exciting new features for BBC Sounds
• Build out the Radio and Music infrastructure on AWS
• Learn new technologies and techniques
• Advise product managers and project managers on the complexities of planned work, including providing time and resource estimates in the planning of projects

The Ideal Candidate

Skills & Experience

Essentials

• Knowledge and experience of API development using Scala or Java
• Developing on the cloud, especially AWS
• Experience of writing unit tests and TDD

Desirable

• Experience of working with Play, Spray, Akka
• Familiarity with version control systems (We use Git)
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and build systems (we use Jenkins)
• Experience of project and issue tracking tools  (we use Jira)
• Love of radio and music

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, Flexible

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/

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 behaviors 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, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Closing Date30 September, 2022