Software Engineering Team Lead Software Engineering Team Lead

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch the BBC. It is an exciting time to join the team as we've ambitious goals to be the number one online TV and audio service in the UK. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country. The Interactive TV teams within this department build and support the BBC's 'big screen' experiences, including iPlayer, Sounds and live events across our broadcast and connected TV platforms. There is a wealth of content to discover throughout the BBC's connected TV services, and this team is focused on ensuring that it plays seamlessly and in high quality for all users, no matter what type of TV device they have. Fulfilling this mission requires a detailed understanding of a wide range of Media Playback
technologies and features such as Dash/HLS, ABR, MSE, Seamless Failover, Live Playback and HTML5 video to name a few. Consisting of a group of highly skilled, multi-disciplinary individuals the team is constantly collaborating working with a wide range of teams across the BBC, using Agile principles, to iterate and learn quickly and at scale., Be accountable for the design and development of effective software that meets given the complex, strategic business needs for immediate team and broader BBC
- Take ownership, and drive cross-team initiatives that deliver value across the wider TV estate
- Promote alignment of the team's products and services with BBC technology and architecture strategy
- Provide technical knowledge and insight to peers and colleagues
- Review and give constructive feedback on others' code
- Ensure the team's software works well in its operating environment
- Troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution
- Define and document the team's best practice and standards
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team's delivery and development processes
- Mentor more junior software engineering team members
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies, and help introduce them where appropriate
- Help out with various recruitment activities such as conducting interviews

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for a person with a passion to always improve, who is willing to learn from and share your knowledge with other people. It's okay if you don't have all the following points covered, we will support and encourage your growth in role from day one.

Extensive experience designing and writing robust software for large scale applications in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles
- Effective leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence a diverse range of stakeholders effectively
- Good communication skills; you are adept at describing technical details to varying levels of people - internal and external to the BBC
- Evidence of a logical and methodical approach to solving complex problems
- Proactive individual who can identify and pursue relevant learning and development goals
- Demonstrable experience in Javascript ecosystem and cloud technologies
- Expertise in test automation and broader testing and QA concerns
- Mentoring experience
- Experience of utilising DevOps practices to ensure high availability of key products or services
- TV software development experience
- Experience developing accessible applications
- Experience of open source practices
- Experience working with media playback technologies (HTML5 Video, Dash/HLS, MSE)

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.