Mid Level Software Engineer - TV Core Playback Team 21860
Mid Level Software Engineer - TV Core Playback Team 21860
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Job Reference: 21860
Band: C
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Salford Media City (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
Closing Date: 25th of April 2025
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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Introduction
The BBC is one of the UKs most wellknown and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch or listen to BBC content.
It is an exciting time to join the team as weve ambitious goals to be the number one online TV and audio service in the UK. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country.
The Interactive TV teams within this department build and support the BBCs big screen experiences including iPlayer Sounds and live events across our broadcast and connected TV platforms.
Based in MediaCityUK Salford youll join our Product TV team to deliver a worldclass connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds. Your work will involve developing innovative application features performing integrations across a range of TV devices and enhancing the TV platform that powers both iPlayer and BBC Sounds. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country this is your opportunity to help define how our audiences engage with the BBC on the big screen.
Interview Process
- 1 hour technical coding test & 1 hour 15 minute values based competencyinterview
- Interviews to commence on the: 30th of April*this may be subject to change
Main Responsibilities
Be accountable for the design and development of effective software that meets given the complex strategic business needs for immediate team and broader BBC
Take ownership and drive crossteam initiatives that deliver value across the wider TV estate
Promote alignment of the teams products and services with BBC technology and architecture strategy
Provide technical knowledge and insight to peers and colleagues
Review and give constructive feedback on others code
Ensure the teams software works well in its operating environment
Troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle including out of hours support for incident resolution
Define and document the teams best practice and standards
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the teams delivery and development processes
Mentor more junior software engineering team members
Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate
Help out with various recruitment activities such as conducting interviews.
Are you the right candidate
We are looking for a person with a passion to always improve who is willing to learn from and share your knowledge with other people. Its okay if you dont have all the following points covered we will support and encourage your growth in role from day one.
Experience designing and writing robust software for large scale applications in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles
Good communication skills; you are adept at describing technical details to varying levels of people internal and external to the BBC
Evidence of a logical and methodical approach to solving complex problems
Proactive individual who can identify and pursue relevant learning and development goals
Demonstrable experience in Javascript ecosystem and cloud technologies
Expertise in test automation and broader testing and QA concerns
Mentoring experience
Experience of utilising DevOps practices to ensure high availability of key products or services
Essential Skills
- Developing object oriented and functional Javascript software.
- Debugging Javascript and performance issues.
- Writing unit and integration tests.
- Connecting to APIs using fetch and XHR.
- Understanding of HTML and XML document formats
- Expertise in modern JavaScript/ TypeScript and its associated frameworks or libraries.
- Strong experience with testdriven development and a deep understanding of testing and QA practices.
- Skilled in addressing operational concerns like monitoring performance testing scaling availability resilience and security.
- Experience working in professional software development environments with established processes and best practices.
- Proficient in translating product requirements into robust scalable technical solutions.
- Solid understanding and application of design patterns in software development.
- Track record of delivering highquality work to completion across a team.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.
- Experience mentoring and developing junior team members fostering a culture of growth.
- Fullstack development experience including backend services and APIs.
Desirables
TV software development experience
Experience developing accessible applications
Experience of open source practices
Experience working with media playback technologies (HTML5 Video Dash/HLS MSE)
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We dont 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 youve read about our values and behaviourshere.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals 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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 sexual orientation gender identity socioeconomic background religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC please clickhere.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
