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Junior Software Engineer
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JOB TITLE: Junior Software Engineer (iOS) – Mobile Apps
JOB REFERENCE: 43346
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Corporate Digital Applications
LOCATION: Any BBC UK base or remote
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £42,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Corporate Digital & Applications (CDA) builds the BBC’s internal tools, including mobile apps and services that make it easier for our BBC colleagues to do their jobs. As a Junior iOS Engineer who is comfortable with Swift and SwiftUI, and eager to learn more, you’ll play a key role in shaping, designing, building and maintaining the iPhone apps that people rely on every day.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
The CDA team is a friendly, flexible, start-up-style group building internal products that help keep the BBC running.
Your work in the Mobile team will be far-reaching. Our flagship newsgathering app enables BBC journalists and programme makers to record and send back pictures and sound directly to any BBC base from anywhere in the world. Within minutes of being recorded, they can appear on TV, radio or the digital services of BBC News.
Among others, we also build apps that enable live broadcasts from an iPhone, help people to find colleagues, stay safe, and carry out basic IT and admin tasks. There will be many more to come.
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Working in CDA you can expect real ownership, impact, and growth.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Collaborate effectively to design, develop, test, and release well-engineered code
- Work closely with the CDA product team
- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
- Effectively participate in the team's software development methodologies, such as pairing, code reviews, agile planning and continuous delivery
- Write appropriate automated tests to ensure code-quality
- Actively help troubleshoot and resolve issues
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Good experience writing iOS apps using Xcode
- Good experience with Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData and object-oriented programming techniques
- Good experience of consuming APIs, eg RESTful or using GraphQL
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- A strong commitment to your own growth and professional development and a willingness to share knowledge and help others
Desirable Criteria
- A good feel for UI / UX design
- An understanding of mobile accessibility standards
- Some familiarity with UIKit
- Experience with package managers such as CocoaPods or Swift Package Manager
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
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.
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