Junior Software Engineer (22868)
Junior Software Engineer (22868)
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Job Requisition: 22868
Band: C
Salary: Up to 39000 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: Office Base is Pacific Quay Glasgow. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
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
Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you will be part of a team who are shaping the future of Audio at the BBC
If you value being given the time support and training to grow your technical and interpersonal skills we have the role for you.
The Content and Content Metadata area in BBC Sounds are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to join the Common Catalogue team.
As the Common Catalogue team we develop and continuously improve a single source of metadata that powers the Sounds product and enables integrations with internal and external partners.
We value our engineers and offer regular training and development opportunities as well as 10% time allowing dedicated time for selfimprovement learning and innovation.
We are a collaborative and supportive team who care about each other and promote a healthy worklife balance through hybrid working.
Interview process
Technical pair programming task for shortlisted candidates approx. one hour
Virtual interview on MS Teams approx. one hour of technical and valuesbased questions
Main Responsibilities
Collaborate with engineers in the team to develop enhance and maintain code within the Common Catalogue repository
Participate in code reviews
Assist in the deployment of code changes to the Dev and Live environments
Assist in troubleshooting and debugging any issues that may arise
Are you the right candidate
Proficiency in a programming language preferably JavaScript or Typescript
Experience developing in the cloud preferably on AWS
Experience with unit testing
Working knowledge of CI/CD and other DevOps principles and practices
Understanding of operational practices such as monitoring/observability
Strong communication and Collaboration skills
Curiosity and an appetite to learn
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.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
