BBC Career Opportunities Junior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Junior Software Engineer (iOS) Mobile Apps
JOB REFERENCE: 43346
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Corporate Digital Applications
LOCATION: Any BBC UK base or remote
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 42000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Corporate Digital & Applications (CDA) builds the BBCs internal tools including mobile apps and services that make it easier for our BBC colleagues to do their jobs. As a Junior iOS Engineer who is comfortable with Swift and SwiftUI and eager to learn more youll play a key role in shaping designing building and maintaining the iPhone apps that people rely on every day.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The CDA team is a friendly flexible start-up-style group building internal products that help keep the BBC running.
Your work in the Mobile team will be far-reaching. Our flagship newsgathering app enables BBC journalists and programme makers to record and send back pictures and sound directly to any BBC base from anywhere in the world. Within minutes of being recorded they can appear on TV radio or the digital services of BBC News.
Among others we also build apps that enable live broadcasts from an iPhone help people to find colleagues stay safe and carry out basic IT and admin tasks. There will be many more to come.
Working in CDA you can expect real ownership impact and growth.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Collaborate effectively to design develop test and release well-engineered code
Work closely with the CDA product team
Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
Effectively participate in the teams software development methodologies such as pairing code reviews agile planning and continuous delivery
Write appropriate automated tests to ensure code-quality
Actively help troubleshoot and resolve issues
Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Good experience writing iOS apps using Xcode
Good experience with Swift SwiftUI SwiftData and object-oriented programming techniques
Good experience of consuming APIs eg RESTful or using GraphQL
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
A strong commitment to your own growth and professional development and a willingness to share knowledge and help others

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

A good feel for UI / UX design
An understanding of mobile accessibility standards
Some familiarity with UIKit
Experience with package managers such as CocoaPods or Swift Package Manager

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.