Software Engineer - Graphics and Automation 22582
Software Engineer - Graphics and Automation 22582
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Job Requisition: 22582
Band: C
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London Energy Centre OR Cardiff OR Glasgow OR Salford hybrid
Closing date for applications is on Monday 21st April 2025 at 23:59
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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Job Introduction
We are looking for a talented Software Engineer with a good balance of technical and communication skills. You will be working with project and product managers business analysts and technical leads to understand requirements and implement suitable technical solutions.
This is a vital role as you will enhance the content that stimulates emotes and improves our understanding of the BBC News that we consume through the innovation of web technologies and automations. You will work on the tools to embed the graphics that enables the audience to consume and better connect with powerful stories.
Main Responsibilities
Hi! Were the Graphics and Automation team and we provide software solutions for the creators of content across the BBC.
Our software integrates with broadcast systems used in the BBC to automate workflows and animate graphics. It is also used to manage programme information such as running orders and metadata.
We build user interfaces for our tools using:
Responsive web clients ES2018 / ReactJS / SCSS
Internal design framework (GEL) and its React implementation
We build backends for our tools using:
Typescript
Java Spring
Ways of Working
The team is made of 7 staff engineers plus a few contractors comprising a unique mix of frontend backend and broadcasting expertise. We are a highly collaborative team. We value our staff offering regular training and development opportunities as well as innovation time allowing dedicated time for selfimprovement learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we are working through team retrospectives and individual mentoring. We are a hardworking team who are supportive who care about each other and promote a healthy worklife balance. We offer opportunities for flexible working and a friendly working environment.
Are you the right candidate
Here are the technical skills we are looking for you may have experience of some but not necessarily all of them:
Designing and writing frontend software ES2018 / ReactJS / VueJS / SCSS
Designing and writing backend software / typescript
Using CI/CD & cloud technologies (such as AWS) to build and deploy solutions
Software testing best practices and knowledge of at least one testing framework
Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns and coding best practices
Ability to rapidly acquire new technical skills and to work with new technologies
Other desirable skills are:
Experience with Greensock GSAP or any Javascript based animation framework
Experience with broadcast technologies and frameworks such as Sofie or CasparCG
Knowledge of Kubernetes Ansible Docker CEF Jenkins or Github Actions
Experience with messaging servers such as ActiveMQ AWS SQS
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 behaviours here.
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 click here.
Employment Type
Full-Time
