Shortform Production and Publication Shortform Production and Publication

You will be part of the Shortform Production and Publication team, which is comprised of a unique mix of front-end, back-end and broadcasting expertise. We are a highly collaborative team. We value our staff, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as 'innovation time' - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve our work through team retrospectives and individual mentoring.

Our team provides broadcast critical software solutions for the creators of content across the BBC. As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to the development of features, fix bugs and issues, review code from others in the team and make a key contribution to the entire development lifecycle, from conception and discovery through development and delivery. Everybody on the team has a say in how we work and you will need to be able to work with others across disciplines.

You will help create team goals and objectives, contribute feature ideas and discuss the future direction of the product, and give input in retrospectives on how we are performing as a team and what we can do to improve.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer, with a good balance of technical and communication skills. You will be working with project and product managers, business analysts and technical leads to understand requirements and implement suitable technical solutions., Real-world Java development, ideally in the context of microservices (Spring Boot) architecture
- Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and work with new technologies
- A good understanding of web development technologies - HTTP/HTTPS, REST
- Experience in developing applications for deployment on Cloud based infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Demonstrable understanding of Test and Behaviour Driven Development
- A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments

Other desirable skills are:

- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Ansible and Docker
- Familiarity with development tools - Linux, Git, Gradle
- Knowledge of relational database design and querying concepts - SQL
- Knowledge of video formats/video processing

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 are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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.