Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer

Here's a snapshot of your individualised growth plan We commit to supporting your on-boarding, growth and development from your very first day. Below are general goals, however we will discuss, amend and tailor them to your specific development needs when you join us. Within a month:

• You'll complete Onboarding, Mandatory Training and inductions
• You'll be onboarded in the team's ways of working and given a detailed introduction to the systems and tools that we build
• You'll meet the rest of the team, learn about the tech stack, partner teams, history, and where your team is going.
• You'll have 1-2-1's with line manager in place, have a development plan and a set of goals for your first 6 months
• Actively participate in pair programming sessions, working closely with other engineers to write maintainable and efficient code
• Take a structured and professional approach to engineering, ensuring high-quality development.
Within 3 months:
• You'll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to get things done in a positive way in keeping with the BBC's values.
• Mentor junior engineers, promote a culture of learning, and stay up to date with new technologies, particularly in data-driven domains.
• Conduct code reviews, maintain coding standards, and guidelines.
• Get involved in supporting our systems and improving our operational practices, working towards our overall Engineering goals.
• As you are aware of how we do things, you will have the opportunity to review, advise and suggest ways we can improve, what we do!
• Contribute to high-level architecture and integrations, leveraging data-driven technologies.
• Ensure software quality by planning, executing and tracking tests
Within 6 months:
• Get involved with recruitment and hiring new team members
• You'll contribute to an environment of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive the ambition to build an outstanding engineering team and culture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience You don't need you to be an expert in all these areas, only some of them. If you have a base understanding of the areas and the underlying principles, you will shine. So don't feel that you can't apply if you don't have all these skills. After all, you'll work with and be mentored by a friendly development team, and the BBC will provide many opportunities for learning as you progress. We create and support reliable and scalable cloud-based services on Amazon Web Services, use GitHub for version control and practice pair programming and Test-Driven Development where possible.,
• Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, IAM, MSK, Kubernetes, Managed Airflow, Athena, Kinesis etc)
  
  Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, CloudFormation)
• Experience with databases(Database: DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, Aurora)
• Proficiency in at least one of the programming languages such as Java, Python
• Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns.
• Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.
• Knowledge of software development principles, design patterns and best practices
• Test Driven Development and testing practices
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies Docker and Kubernetes
  
  Core Platform is a part of the Data Platform & Products Department who provide trusted, fast, reliable access to data (from audiences and other sources) to enable a data-informed and personally relevant BBC.
We provide, data such as personal and demographic, behavioural, data on engagement with BBC products and services. and drive personalised experiences for all the registered members of iPlayer, Sounds and all the other BBC Products. We also provide a platform for 140+ weekly active users from our Data community: analysts, scientists, engineers, plus other services. This presents interesting challenges of working with data at scale and in building highly scalable data ingestion pipelines. The BBC has a vision for 2027 announcing its plan to be Digital First earlier this year, data is going to be core to its success. We need to be able to provide fast access to data in real-time to support data-informed decision making and providing personalisation at scale. The solution will also be leveraged by the whole organisation such as HR, Finance and Operations. This is huge step-change in the use of data, which will require a step-change in our data technologies and processes., The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack Here.