Senior Software Engineer

BBC Studios Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A major broadcasting company in London seeks an experienced software engineer to join the Passports team, responsible for creating and maintaining content metadata systems. Ideal candidates will have significant experience with Typescript and React, alongside skills in cloud resource management. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, excellent career development opportunities, and a chance to make a meaningful impact on products used by millions.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Flexible work hours

Annual leave options

Pension scheme

Discounted health care

Qualifications

• Significant experience developing in Typescript for critical production services.
• Experience of developing event-driven services and metadata enrichment workflows.
• Experience implementing & maintaining continuous integration and deployment methodologies, including GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement components and services to specification that are efficient.
• Ensure quality of code by implementing tests and code reviews.
• Liaise with teams to explore and suggest technical solutions.
• Work on deployment to live site and intermediate environments.
• Maintain and support the applications with high ownership.

Skills

Typescript development

React user interfaces

Event-driven services

Continuous integration methodologies

Cloud resources management

Job description

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Passports - Product Group
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House, 1-2 days per week in-office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £58,500 - £68,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. + London Weighting £5,441.00

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Passports team is responsible for designing, building, and supporting the services that create and control the descriptive Metadata associated with all types of content (e.g. BBC Sounds audio, iPlayer video, News/Sport/World Service articles). Effective use of Metadata allows the BBC to provide a rich, engaging and above all relevant experience to millions of audience members every day. We're a cross-functional team and work with a varied technology stack that includes GraphDB and NoSQL databases; Kafka event streams; Scala, Go, and Node services, & React UIs, mostly built in AWS.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world‑class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career.

The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

The Passports team is looking for an experienced, professional, and enthusiastic software engineer to join a world‑class team responsible for designing, building and delivering the BBC’s content metadata systems. Our team spans multiple sites (in this case Salford and London), so you will be comfortable with the challenges of collaborating with colleagues remotely.

As a full‑stack developer on the team your responsibilities will include tasks such as:

• Design and implement components and services to specification that are efficient, scalable, and well abstracted, using a variety of server‑side technologies.
• Ensure quality of code by implementing unit, integration, and acceptance tests, as well by using code reviews and pair programming.
• Liaise with other teams to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features while safeguarding usability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Work with all relevant parties on the deployment to the live site and all intermediate hosting environments.
• Responsibility for the maintenance, support and call‑out duties required in a team that strives for a high sense of ownership and dev‑ops responsibility.
• Ensure software conforms to operational requirements of hosting environments.
• Work with test and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues throughout the life cycle.
• Ensure your work meets BBC Online technical standards and guidelines.
• Assist junior or graduate developers by providing guidance, instruction and expertise where required.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Significant experience developing in Typescript for critical production services
• Significant experience developing React user interfaces
• Experience of developing event‑driven services and metadata enrichment workflows.
• Experience implementing & maintaining continuous integration and deployment methodologies, including GitHub Actions
• Experience of developing and maintaining Cloud based resources (AWS)

DESIRED

• Understanding of microservice architectures, and its pros and cons.
• Familiarity with event streaming technologies including Kafka
• Experience of working with processes to improve code quality, such as pair programming and code reviews.
• Experience of working in a team with dev‑ops responsibilities.

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.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

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.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.