Software Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios COO Group
LOCATION: London Light House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 43000 - 58000 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

Join the BBC Media Services team to build the software powering audio and video experiences for millions worldwide. As a Software Engineer youll design develop test and maintain highquality systems that support live streaming ondemand content and podcasts. Your work will ensure scalable reliable and wellengineered solutions that solve real business problems and elevate BBCs global media delivery.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Youll be part of the group responsible for encoding packaging publishing and playback of BBCs online media impacting audiences across the globe. Working with modern streaming technologies youll help deliver highquality reliable playback across diverse platforms. The team collaborates across BBC Studios and offering opportunities to grow your engineering skills while shaping consistent and engaging media experiences at scale.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Design develop test and deploy highquality software applications and services.
• Collaborate with product managers business analysts and engineers to deliver features endtoend.
• Write clean welldocumented maintainable code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Debug troubleshoot and resolve software defects and production issues.
• Contribute to system design discussions and technical decisions.
• Improve system performance scalability and reliability.
• Maintain and enhance existing applications.
• Follow secure coding practices and promote engineering excellence.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java.
• Solid understanding of data structures algorithms and objectoriented design.
• Experience with microservices APIs GitHub/CICD testing practices Linuxbased systems and AWS.
• Strong problemsolving and communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience with Python and Ruby.
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams.
• Exposure to system design and distributed systems.

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.

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.

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