Senior Backend Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios Product
LOCATION: London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 54000 - 70000 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

As a Senior Backend Engineer you ll be a key contributor to an empowered product engineering team combining world-class software craftsmanship with pragmatic problem-solving. Youll design build and maintain scalable reliable backend systems using modern TypeScript helping shape technical decisions while delivering meaningful outcomes at pace.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This role sits within the worldwide team focused on delivering solutions and content for our global (non-UK) audience. The platform is supported by three teams: front-end CMS/tooling and back-end systems. Were currently undergoing a transformation to strengthen our agile and engineering practices with a constant drive to improve. The team is known for being friendly open and supportive. is part of the wider Studios Product Group which manages major BBC brands and content distribution.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Backend Engineering Excellence

• Build and maintain robust APIs services and backend components using TypeScript () and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Writing high-quality code that meets reliability securityand performance standards.
• Lead by example on code quality refactoring and technical best practices.

System Design & Technical Collaboration

• Contribute to architectural decisions ensuring systems are scalableobservable and aligned to business needs.
• Work with Solution Architects and Tech Leads to evolve our distributedsystems data models and service boundaries.
• Balance technical debt reduction with delivery priorities.

Product & Delivery Focus

• Partner with Product Managers to break down work into deliverable high-impact increments.
• Participate in planning estimation and technical discovery sessions.
• Ensure backend systems are observable maintainable and instrumented fordata-driven iteration.

Mentoring & Team Development

• Support the growth of engineers through code reviews pairing andknowledge sharing.
• Promote engineering standards continuous improvement and a healthyinclusive team culture.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with Frontend Infrastructure Data and Security teams to shipreliable secure and scalable technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Backend engineering experience building production-grade systems.
• Good knowledge of TypeScript for backend development ( ecosystem).
• Experience operating within cloud-based platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems APIs databases (SQL/NoSQL)and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD automated testing observability and operational bestpractices.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience working with other languages especially Go would be beneficial.

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.

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