Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios Product team
LOCATION: London TVC
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 70000- 85000 plus London Weighting Allowance of 5441 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the worlds most sought-after TV audio and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful entertaining and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This role will lead development in a major media supply chain transformation at BBC Studios. The role is vital to delivering modern serverless cloud-native workflows supporting global content operations. Youll work closely with architects developers and product teams to drive future-proof end-to-end delivery. The role balances hands-on coding with leadershipguiding technical direction mentoring others and embedding best practices throughout delivery. Its a highly technical position with direct influence on shaping our evolving technology landscape.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Were a passionate team of developers building a cutting-edge media supply chain platform through modern software engineering and DevOps practices. Our mission is to drive automation and efficiency at scale enabling faster more reliable content delivery. Partnering with operations we solve real problems and create measurable value. Youll help design complex workflows solve technical challenges and influence outcomes. We foster collaboration innovation and learninggiving engineers real autonomy.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Lead development activities across supply chain teams ensuring end-to-end delivery of working software to business value.
- Collaborate with architects to ensure designs are clearly understood by development teams support iterative delivery and are sustainable for long-term operational needs.
- Lead and coordinate agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups and backlog refinement sessions.
- Champion continuous improvement in processes tools and engineering practices.
- Future-proof development processes by introducing modern approaches and leveraging AI tools.
- Ensure observability scalability and maintainability across solutions.
- A trusted technical leader mentoring developers and fostering knowledge sharing.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- An experienced technical leader with deep expertise in cloud-native and serverless architecture actively engaged in hands-on development.
- AWS Serverless expertise: Lambda Step Functions SNS/SQS/EventBridge.
- Programming: proficiency in TypeScript.
- Databases: Experience with at least: DynamoDB PostgreSQL or MongoDB/DocumentDB (or similar NoSQL solutions)
- Cloud Architecture: AWS Associate level certification or equivalent experience building serverless solutions.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Interest Experience in building media processing workflows (transcoding metadata pipelines).
- Media workflows Python and AI-assisted development processes.
- Leadership: Proven experience leading technical teams in a DevOps environment.
- Knowledge of media processing workflows (transcoding metadata pipelines).
- Python experience or strong desire to learn.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
