Junior Software Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Digital Distribution
LOCATION: London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 32 200 - 44 200

depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Media Distribution Analytics is the team that knows what your streaming experience was while watching Wimbledon on iPlayer or listening to your favourite podcast on BBC Sounds. The BBCs future is dependent on delivering content to an ever-growing online audience and setting the industry standard for a world-class on-demand and live streaming experience. That means playing content back flawlessly and oering the best quality media to our audience so that we continue to deliver news entertainment and the UKs most prestigious live events that delight our audiences.
To achieve these goals the Media Distribution Analytics team develop the data products and pipelines that ingest measure and visualise the audience experience and allow us to take action often in real-time in addition to informing long term capacity requirements and performance. This is a data engineering team that processes enormous quantities of data and works closely with device playback and the BBCs own Content Distribution Network team (BIDI) as well as third party network suppliers to help make the online streaming experience the best it can possibly be.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Joining the Media Distribution Analytics team as a junior software engineer is a chance to work on high-impact real-time data systems that improve how millions experience BBC content. Youll collaborate with experienced engineers learn to build scalable data pipelines and contribute to cutting-edge streaming analytics. a unique opportunity to grow your skills while shaping the future of online media distribution at the BBC.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

Design and build data products to understand media distribution within the BBC.
Maintain and extend a petabyte-scale data lake and ETL process.
Develop our real-time stream processing pipeline used for operational monitoring.
Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to find new requirements ensure products are impactful and add value.
Contribute to culture of engineering excellence

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

Youre enthusiastic about working with data and excited to learn how data products shape user experiences.
Ability to write code in at least one programming language commonly used in data engineeringsuch as Python SQL or Javaand are open to learning others
Understanding of the fundamentals of databaseswhether relational object storage or data warehousesand are curious to explore modern data lake and data modelling tools
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and are eager to learn how to deploy and manage data services in production
Enjoying collaborating in cross-functional teams and being comfortable asking questions seeking feedback and learning from others

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

Some hands-on experience (through work university or personal projects) with batch or streaming data pipelines and are keen to deepen your knowledge of tools like Spark Kafka or Flink.
Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS GCP or Azure)
Youre interested in building reliable systems and are willing to develop your skills in testing version control CI/CD and working in production environments.
Exposure to data visualization tools (such as Looker Grafana or PowerBI) is a plus but a willingness to learn how to communicate insights from data is even more important.


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.