Software Engineer - EXTEND

BBC Studios Ltd; Salford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization is seeking a Software Engineer for their WebCore Platform in Salford. You will manage and engineer cloud-native components on AWS, implement CI/CD, and ensure observability and monitoring for reliability. The ideal candidate should have strong coding skills in TypeScript or JavaScript, experience with AWS, and a willingness to learn new technologies in a dynamic agile environment. This full-time role offers a competitive salary up to £54,000, and flexible working arrangements can be discussed.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

25 days annual leave plus option to buy 5 more days

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and healthcare

Gym discounts

Excellent career and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with coding, ideally in Typescript / Javascript.
• Experience managing infrastructure with AWS or a similar cloud service.
• Experience of coordinating work in an agile team setting.
• Ability to learn new software skills and work with new technologies.
• Capability to lead initiatives in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and manage cloud-native platform components.
• Automate resource provisioning and management with AWS CDK.
• Manage automated pipelines for deployment.
• Implement and maintain platform-wide monitoring and alerting.
• Improve platform tooling, documentation, and automation.

Skills

Coding in Typescript / Javascript

Managing infrastructure with AWS

Agile team coordination

Desire to learn new technologies

Leading initiatives in a multidisciplinary team

Tools

AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3)

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Job description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – WebCore Platform
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time
DEPARTMENT: Chief Operating Group
LOCATION: Salford Dock House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £54,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

BBC EXTEND

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long‑term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non‑apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact [e-mail].

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage. EX2324

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

BBC Web Enable manages WebCore, the backbone of BBC’s digital products—including HomePages, News, and Sport. Our mission is to deliver robust, high‑performance platforms that enable product teams to build and deploy at scale. We invest in automation, observability, and platform reliability, ensuring seamless content delivery and an outstanding developer experience.

Now is an exciting time in Web Enable and WebCore Platform, with migrations, observability initiatives and collaboration at the heart of most of our work. We require a Software Engineer with a will to succeed and a want to progress in a fast‑paced environment working closely with backend and frontend engineers alike. You will only be held back by your own imagination and knowledge, learn as you go and press forward to enhance the products and services that enable News, Sport, Children’s and the incoming iPlayer and Sounds to help put their content in front of millions of people daily. You will work with new and industry standard technologies, you will build for the future, and you can expand your knowledge and experience by experimenting and pushing your experience.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) – Engineer and manage cloud‑native platform components, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
• AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) – Automation of resource provisioning and management for consistency and repeatability.
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild) – Manage and implement automated pipelines, enabling frictionless deployment and rapid iteration.
• Observability & Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, InfluxDB) – Implement and maintain platform‑wide monitoring, alerting, and logging for reliability and incident response.
• Developer Experience – Continuously improve platform tooling, documentation, and automation to empower product teams and reduce cognitive load.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience with coding, ideally in Typescript / Javascript.
• Experience managing infrastructure with AWS, or a similar cloud services.
• Experience of coordinating work in an agile team setting.
• Desire to learn new software skills and work with new technologies.
• The ability to lead initiative or tasks within a multi‑disciplinary team.

DESIRED:

• Familiarity with event‑driven systems.
• Knowledge of databases and data modelling.
• Understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design principles.
• Experience with frameworks like React or Next.js.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with unit, integration and end‑to‑end testing.

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.

Find out more about the BBC

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.

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]