Software Engineer - EXTEND

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JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Discoverability - Product Group
LOCATION: Newcastle 1 day a week Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,000 - £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

BBC EXTEND

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You're broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact .

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The BBC's digital products reach more than 500 million people every week and are trusted globally as a source of news, entertainment and education. That trust is built not only on our editorial standards, but also on the security, reliability and resilience of the systems behind every stream, story and service.

Our Discoverability teams are building platform capabilities that make it easier for audiences to find personalised and contextually relevant content. Our goal is to create the first personalisation platform rooted in public service values.

As the ideal candidate you'll have strong experience working with large engineering teams, as well as being an excellent communicator and collaborator. You'll also be very comfortable working with web technologies - such as React, TypeScript, and CSS - as well as the broader technology landscape such as networking, the cloud, and accessibility. You'll have a thirst for new opportunities - such as those offered by AI - whilst also understanding the operational and safety needs of a large organisation. You'll also be a self starter, excellent at seeking opportunities and reaching out to others to make great things happen.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM - You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential. We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with project, product and technical leads to design software that meets complex product and business needs, creating implementable specifications and tasks at feature and component level.
• Participate in and lead as required, the team's agile planning and delivery process.
• Participate in and help improve the team's software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.
• Deliver work to successful completion across the immediate team including writing appropriate tests using automated test driven techniques for ensuring code quality and coverage.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Extensive experience in React, Typescript and Node.js.
• Extensive experience in relational and non relational db.
• Experience building systems following Event Driven architecture.
• Experience in Automated testing.
• Experience with complex, multi tenant cloud platforms in AWS.

DESIRED:

• Experience in software engineering with a strong track record in agile, CI/CD and DevOps environments.
• In depth hands on experience with streaming platforms such as Kinesis, to build scalable, decoupled systems.
• Experience working on multiple projects or codebases concurrently.
• Experience mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

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 pension scheme 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.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique, 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.

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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