AWS & Node.js Senior Software Engineer

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Job Title: AWS & Node.js Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £57,000- £67,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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Location: Office Base is Salford, MediaCityUK, Dock House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. Office attendance is required each Wednesday. Infrequent travel to the office with be required for adhoc TV device access, i.e. debugging live issues.

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.

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Purpose Of The Role

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 or listen to BBC content.

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.

We're looking for enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers to join our agile team, where you'll help shape the future of TV products for millions of viewers. This role blends platform engineering, and developer experience, offering the chance to work on diverse technical challenges that drive our teams forward.

Based in MediaCityUK, Salford, you'll join our TV Enablement team to deliver a world-class connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds.

Your work will contribute to the TV application platform, and you will develop and maintain tooling used by other teams. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country - this is your opportunity to help define how our audiences engage with the BBC on the big screen.

Interview Process

One stage virtual assessment centre combining a live pair programming test and an interview with our software engineering teams.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

Join a dynamic team to architect, deliver, and evolve Node.js & AWS solutions addressing complex challenges that impact multiple internal teams and critical audience services. In this role, you will:

• Be an advocate for an inclusive culture, and help all members of the team contribute to work and be heard.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering professional growth.
• Create and adapt solutions using AWS services, to manage high traffic applications that serve millions of users every day
• Integrate monitoring and support tools to achieve operational excellence.
• Utilise modern testing standards and techniques to ensure code meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead technical projects from understanding requirements through to completed delivery.
• Play an active role in agile planning, delivery processes, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with several other multi-disciplinary teams.
• Create, review, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to support current and future development.

Your Skills And Experience

• Motivation to learn, share knowledge with others, and be able to mentor both junior and mid-level engineers.
• Experience in architecting and delivering projects using AWS using CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, CodePipeline/CodeBuild, and CloudWatch.
• Good inter-personal communication skills, and able to communicate effectively with different disciplines, or people of different technical knowledge levels.
• Experience delivering sizable projects to completion, using agile methodologies, able to break down delivery of solutions from epics to small parallelisable tasks.
• Knowledge of addressing operational concerns such as monitoring, performance testing, scaling, availability, resilience, and security. Handling incidents, and post-incident review processes.
• Be a positive proactive influence on your team's culture, ways-of-working, and technical output, skills, and knowledge.

The following are not necessary to apply, but are desirable:

• In-depth knowledge of AWS technologies, or AWS accreditations/qualifications.
• Out Of Hours/On Call engineer experience.
• Knowledge or experience of DORA metrics.
• Knowledge or experience with SAST/DAST.
• Experience with complex deployment systems.
• Experience with mono/multi-tenant repo tooling.
• Experience with AWS CDK.
• Knowledge of HbbTV/DVB standards.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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