Senior Software Engineer
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Job Package
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London hybrid (1 day per week in the office)
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 in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits- We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life 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 ourcandidate pack.
Were looking for passionate senior back-end engineers to join our collaborative cross-discipline agile team. We welcome applications from all regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexuality social background religion and/or belief. We also welcome applicants from career changers and those from non-traditional tech backgrounds.
It is an exciting time to join our Video Product Experience back-end team as our mission is to help iPlayer be the future of BBC TV. This is an opportunity to work on systems that reach millions of people every day supported by a team dedicated to mentoring collaboration and professional growth.
Job Introduction
As a Senior Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to design and implement software applications using a wide range of technologies to drive our products forward. You will also have the opportunity to work with Delivery Managers and Product Managers to influence the future of BBC iPlayer and make it the indispensable video destination! Youll be part of a team working on high-scale backend systems that power BBC TV. Youll contribute to:
- Plan design develop & release working software using best practices
- Pair-program with other team members and mentor other developers
- Learn new technologies and adapt to change
- Promote skills and knowledge sharing
- Work in a cross-discipline environment
- Understand and contribute to product goals/priorities
Are you the right candidate
- Expertise in building performant and resilient HTTP APIs
- Expertise using technologies for building JavaScript or TypeScript server side applications
- Expertise using cloud technologies and distributed systems (we use AWS)
- Developing well tested software using TDD techniques
- Working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or similar
- Developing software with security and performance in mind
- Establishing and promoting best practices within teams
- Being flexible and comfortable adapting to changing priorities
- Being curious kind and a great team-worker
- Learning new software skills and working with new technologies
- Working and collaborating in cross-discipline teams
Why join us
We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. Were deeply proud of our values which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing peoples lives.
Our engineers receive 10% development time built into the 35 hour working week. We want to give you the time and space to stay fresh in the ever-changing technology landscape. Enjoy a flexible work setup with one day a week in the London office combining in-person collaboration with the benefits of remote work.
Come work on fantastically high-scale systems with us!
The selection process:
There are two elements:
1) Live pair programming exercise with two of our software engineers which you get in advance of your assessment centre date
2) Blended interview questions with two of our software engineers
We aim to make our recruitment process a snapshot into our culture and what its like to work here.
About the BBC
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 non-production 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 socio-economic 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:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
