Senior Software Engineer

Job Introduction

Do you want to be part of the team that enables some of the BBC's most popular digital products? Are you looking for an opportunity to use your skills to help our engineers own and operate the platform services needed to meet the demands of scale and performance? If so, then we might have just the opportunity you're looking for.

In Navigation we're building a platform that helps to deliver the BBC's digital content. Working directly on the Orbit Platform, helping serve over 2 billion requests a month for sites including BBC News, iPlayer, Sounds and Worldwide are among the portfolio. Our challenge is to provide a robust and secure platform that can operate at this increasing scale while also providing the features that allow the end user experience to be the best possible for all users.

Our Teams

Navigation supports every part of the developer lifecycle - creating, building, deploying, and owning. This gives us a diverse set of problem domains to tackle while also operating the systems that serve millions of requests each week.

Our Platform engineers build and operate the underlying platform and infrastructure. They typically specialise in one or more systems and components, while working across the stack to build domain solutions.

Languages and technologies we use

We use a range of AWS technologies including Elasticache (Redis), S3, EC2s and more. We own systems written in Node, Ruby, and many more.

What will you work on?

As a member of one of our Platform teams, you'll be working on some of the toughest backend problems you'll encounter at the BBC with the support of colleagues with a wide range of skill sets. You'll gain insight into the challenges of running a mission-critical platform at scale and get the chance to expand your skills with training and mentoring opportunities.

We want to give you the opportunity to work with fascinating tech and get your hands dirty with interesting systems. We want to support you and grow your skills as an engineer.

Role Responsibility

Technical:

• Building well engineered, highly-available solutions to handle huge volumes of traffic.
• Building software that meets the requirements for a fast, reliable & always-on service.
• Seeking to always learn about new technologies or approaches, and championing them to ensure our products and processes are world class.

People:

• Working with others to get things done in a pro-active and positive way.
• Working closely with and understanding needs of the teams, enabling them to deliver high value to the audience.
• Working closely with our operations team to ensure the platform is well-supported, scalable and reliable.
• Contributing to an environment of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Delivery:

• Delivering features using agile development practices.
• Seeking out new tools and methodologies to evolve our development processes.
• Solving operational issues, including working under a DevOps model.
• Assisting with recruiting, mentoring and training new team members.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential

• Demonstrable experience writing and maintaining robust production software.
• Demonstrable experience with modern front end programming language.
• Experience in Agile practices.
• Experience in Cloud architecture.
• Experience in DevOps.
• Experience in testing and design patterns.
• Competence in developing for operational concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, security considerations) .
• The ability to mentor junior members or new starters to a high standard.

Desirable

• Takes responsibility for driving tasks to completion.
• Understanding of designing & implementing for non-functional concerns.
• Experience of database design and use in software applications.
• Software Engineering or Computer Science Degree or equivalent.

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) 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.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here