Software Engineer = EXTEND

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.

BBC EXTEND

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act if applying in Northern Ireland. You're broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

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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.

Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Expertise designing, building and supporting modern 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, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Proven track record of building software solutions with consideration to non-functional requirements.
• Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.

Desired

• Experience developing systems using microservices architecture
• Experience developing systems using event driven architecture

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.

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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.