Senior Software Engineer - (IOS)
- BBC
- Salford, Manchester
- Sep 23, 2022
Full time
Information Technology
Telecommunications
Job Description
Job Introduction
The BBC Mobile Platform, part of Media Services, is an integral part of the BBC's digital-first strategy, delivering consistent user experiences and core functionality across the BBC's mobile estate.
As a Senior Software Engineer within Mobile Playback, you'll be joining a team of engineers developing our Media Player components, the core playback engine of all video and audio content across the BBC online. The BBC is recognised throughout the world for the quality of the content that we produce and the programmes that we broadcast. We are looking for high calibre developers with a passion for technology to help us transform the experience for our audience when consuming media in the digital age.
The media components we build are right at the heart of the BBC's best loved products including iPlayer, Sounds, News and Sport to name just a few. Whether you're catching up on last night's episode of EastEnders, listening to Radio 1 or jumping right into live sporting action, our media player provides a robust, reliable and consistent playback experience.
Role Responsibility
As a Senior 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, discovery through development and delivery. You will also take responsibility for the technical direction of features and provide support to more junior engineers.
We care about code quality and clean architecture. We work in Objective-C and Swift, so you need experience with one or both of those languages. You will be happy to discuss technical details with the rest of the engineering team, contributing to discussions and communicating your own ideas.
You will also have opportunities to grow and specialise. We want you to be passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can have. You will need a desire to keep learning and growing, with support from cross-team groups, meet-ups, and chapters focussed on topics such as iOS and Android development, accessibility, security, development practices, continuous delivery, and many other areas of interest.
We are looking for an experienced engineer who is excited by, and keen to pursue a career working with mobile software components. You will care about quality code, love collaboration, experimentation and are a confident communicator.
You will be interested in mastering your test driven development approach to produce systems isolated from framework dependencies.
Are you the right candidate?
Essential
Package Description
About the BBC
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 in the document attached below. You'll be asked questions relating to them as part of your application for this role.
The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.
The BBC Mobile Platform, part of Media Services, is an integral part of the BBC's digital-first strategy, delivering consistent user experiences and core functionality across the BBC's mobile estate.
As a Senior Software Engineer within Mobile Playback, you'll be joining a team of engineers developing our Media Player components, the core playback engine of all video and audio content across the BBC online. The BBC is recognised throughout the world for the quality of the content that we produce and the programmes that we broadcast. We are looking for high calibre developers with a passion for technology to help us transform the experience for our audience when consuming media in the digital age.
The media components we build are right at the heart of the BBC's best loved products including iPlayer, Sounds, News and Sport to name just a few. Whether you're catching up on last night's episode of EastEnders, listening to Radio 1 or jumping right into live sporting action, our media player provides a robust, reliable and consistent playback experience.
Role Responsibility
As a Senior 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, discovery through development and delivery. You will also take responsibility for the technical direction of features and provide support to more junior engineers.
We care about code quality and clean architecture. We work in Objective-C and Swift, so you need experience with one or both of those languages. You will be happy to discuss technical details with the rest of the engineering team, contributing to discussions and communicating your own ideas.
You will also have opportunities to grow and specialise. We want you to be passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can have. You will need a desire to keep learning and growing, with support from cross-team groups, meet-ups, and chapters focussed on topics such as iOS and Android development, accessibility, security, development practices, continuous delivery, and many other areas of interest.
We are looking for an experienced engineer who is excited by, and keen to pursue a career working with mobile software components. You will care about quality code, love collaboration, experimentation and are a confident communicator.
You will be interested in mastering your test driven development approach to produce systems isolated from framework dependencies.
Are you the right candidate?
Essential
- Commercial mobile development experience in iOS.
- A good understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design.
- Demonstrable Test Driven Development
- A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments
- Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies
- Experience of managing code in source control systems such as Github
- Experience in the following languages, Swift and Objective C for iOS
Package Description
- Excellent career progression: The BBC offers great opportunities for ambitious individuals to seek new challenges and work on many different and varied products.
- Unrivalled training and development opportunities: Our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- A vibrant digital community: We have a strong focus on continuous improvement and engineering excellence. We host regular talks from internal and external speakers, and provide generous opportunities to attend industry events and conferences.
- Benefits: We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
About the BBC
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 in the document attached below. You'll be asked questions relating to them as part of your application for this role.
The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.
About BBC