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Senior Software Engineer
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: BBC Media Tech – Mobile Experiences
LOCATION: Glasgow Pacific Quay or Salford Dock House or London Broadcasting House – 1 day a week Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £63,000 - £68,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
You’ll be working on the Mobile Enablement team, helping to provide tools, infrastructure and assistance to support teams building the BBC’s mobile apps for iOS and Android.
As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll play a key role building, maintaining and acquiring systems and services to help other BBC mobile teams build faster and align on technology and processes.
You will accelerate the team by mentoring colleagues, as well as engaging with teams across the organisation.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
On the Mobile Enablement team you will find yourself in a central connecting role within the BBC mobile space. This is an opportunity to work on key fundamental areas with a wide impact and to build relationships with teams and colleagues to have an impact across the organisation, including all mobile apps.
We have a primary focus of supporting software engineers providing a unique opportunity to engage with the needs of technical colleagues.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Developing and maintaining systems and infrastructure to support mobile app development within the BBC
- Working through the product lifecycle from requirements through to release and ongoing support, with an emphasis on working closely with internal stakeholders in the mobile app space.
- Participate in agile practices code reviews and other measures to contribute to a culture of openness, quality and continuous improvement
- Liaising with colleagues in teams across the organisation to gather requirements, provide support, troubleshoot
- Supporting the systems provided by our team and responding to incoming requests from colleagues
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Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Technical Insight (Cloud technologies): Experience and expertise building in AWS, including CodeBuild, CodePipeline, EC2, Lambda, Docker, Cloudwatch
- Supporting production systems: Experience and knowledge of supporting systems and concerns such as reliability, monitoring, dealing with live incidents and conducting Post Incident Reviews
- Quality coding practices: such as testing, security concerns, meaningful PR feedback, and appropriate documentation for different audiences
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate with a broad range of colleagues, technical and non-technical, both within a team and across other internal organisation clients.
- Team Building: Experience Mentoring more junior colleagues, improving team processes and contributing to building high-performing teams
Desirable
- Technical Insight (Mobile Apps): Knowledge and experience of native mobile app development
- Technical Insight(MacOS build machines): Using MacOS as a CI build environment
- Technical Insight(GCP): Google Cloud Platform administration including Firebase
- Technical Insight(CI/CD): CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
- Expertise in one or more languages commonly used in AWS development such as Python including relevant experience of automated testing
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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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