Software Engineer

Job Details JOB BAND: C CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group, Content & Content Metadata LOCATION: Salford Dock House 1 day a week Hybrid PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £57,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Purpose of the Role The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer product teams build some of the BBC's most used and valued products. Our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch BBC content. The iPlayer Catalogue (Video Content Catalogue) team is responsible for creating and maintaining content catalogues that powers consistent experience across the iPlayer product and partner platforms. Why Join the Team This is a great opportunity to join an inclusive high-performing team at the heart of one of the BBC's highest profile digital products. You'll be building high performance, scalable applications in a collaborative and supportive environment, with plenty of opportunities for learning and development. The BBC Engineering community is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. Your Key Responsibilities and Impact Building excellently engineered, highly available solutions using agile development practices. Contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement. Collaborating effectively to deliver the best value audience experience. Working in a DevOps model including solving operational issues and providing out-of-hours support. Sharing knowledge, learning new skills and adapting to change. Your Skills and Experience Essential Criteria: Expertise designing, building and supporting modern back-end Cloud based applications using Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS and AWS Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB) Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Pair Programming, TDD) Proven track record of building software solutions with consideration to product value and non-functional requirements (e.g. observability, maintainability and DevEx). Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind. Desired: Experience developing systems using microservices architecture Experience developing systems using event driven architecture Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk Redeployment The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain. #J-18808-Ljbffr