Software Engineer Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer joining our Media Services team, you'll help us build great software solutions that make a difference to our products and streaming engine. The main part of your job? Writing solid, clean code that works smoothly with our monitoring and ops tools. You'll also help your teammates follow good design patterns. We believe that quality is a team effort, so you'll need to be comfortable with test-driven development and make sure our code coverage stays high. You'll be hands-on throughout the whole development process, from fixing bugs to shipping features. We love working together, so expect to do some pair programming and code reviews. You'll also help plan out new features and figure out what it'll take to get them from idea to production.

To help us with this you would need to be a passionate Software Engineer, familiar with cloud technologies and experienced in delivering quality code. You would need some awareness or familiarity with CI/CD and a willingness to learn new things., 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.

• Good communicator, proactive, and result oriented.
• Object-oriented programming languages; ideally Java.
• Familiarity with scripting languages: Bash, Python or Ruby
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Developing in cloud-native architecture and technologies (e.g. AWS cloud services including EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, EventBridge)
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, CloudFormation)
  
  The BBC is one of the world's most respected media organisations, reaching a weekly global audience of 447 million people. Media Services is a vital link between content production and online users, and we helped deliver a staggering 7.3 billion iPlayer streams in the last financial year. We provide a large suite of microservices, which together form the backend workflows that prepare and transcode audio and video content, then package it up and push it out onto the internet. In an online-dominated future, our role is crucial to keeping the BBC relevant., 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.

Salary: £42,400 to £50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Contract type: Permanent role Location: Office Base is London, The Lighthouse. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. 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.