BBC Career Opportunities Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
JOB REF: 47677
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Enablement
LOCATION: London/Glasgow/Salford/Cardiff/Newcastle Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 54600 - 82800 London Weighting depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Sunday the 5th of July 2026
PROPOSED INTERVIEW DATE: Commencing the 16th of July 2026*This is subject to change

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.

Interview Process
The selection process will consist of two stages:

coding assessment designed to evaluate technical proficiency.

A comprehensive interview comprising:
a technical presentation and
a blended competency-based interview focused on values and behaviours and technical ability.

Join the BBC team responsible for the routing and resiliency layer serving most of our global Web and Apps products. As a Senior Software Engineer you will play a key role in developing and operating a high-performance cluster of Elixir applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide ensuring our key services are fast reliable and always available.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Youd join a collaborative team of expert Elixir engineers dedicated to performance and resilience. You will work on highly impactful solutions leveraging OTP to serve millions of users globally. We foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges at a massive scale.

Develop and maintain robust scalable software in Elixir.
Troubleshoot debug and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting for our services.
Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
Contribute to code reviews and foster a culture of high-quality engineering.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.
Professional experience with functional programming languages (e.g. Elixir Erlang Scala Clojure Haskell F#) or modern statically typed languages (e.g. Rust Go) developing web applications backend services APIs or distributed systems.
Strong expertise in designing systems for observability including effective monitoring detailed logging comprehensive performance testing strategies and hands-on experience with modern observability tools such as Grafana Prometheus or CloudWatch to implement and manage monitoring solutions.
Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud providers such as GCP or Azure to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality and delivery efficiency.

DESIRED :

In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and performance tuning.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation).
Experience working effectively in multi-team environments with strong communication and collaboration skills to support engagement with teams and engineers.
Familiarity with technical writing.

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.

Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.