Jobs at Bbc in United Kingdom

Job summary

A leading media organization in London is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of secure, scalable distributed services. The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, setting engineering standards, and driving cloud native development. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with object oriented programming, AWS services, and established CI/CD practices. This position offers a competitive salary, a hybrid working environment, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Proficiency in a mainstream object oriented programming language (e.g. Java, C#, Python) and the ability to write clean, maintainable and well tested software.
• Cloud native development experience, ideally with AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions and EventBridge.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices, APIs and distributed systems, with a strong understanding of event driven and message based architectural patterns.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing practices (TDD/BDD) and modern engineering approaches for secure, observable and resilient services.
• Experience integrating software with monitoring, alerting and security tooling, with a mindset that values operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high quality, secure and scalable distributed services.
• Set and champion engineering standards, modern patterns and best practices across teams.
• Drive cloud native development approaches including automated testing, CI/CD and observability driven design.
• Partner with product, architecture and engineering teams to shape solutions from inception to production.
• Guide teams through complex problem solving, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and coach engineers, supporting skills development and fostering a healthy engineering culture.