BBC Hiring for Graduate Software Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

Do you want to join a great company, in a team at the forefront of business growth, learn a variety of technical skills and build a career? If so, read on…

Who we are:

Everyone knows the BBC, but do you know they have a commercial arm?

As a leaner, more agile subsidiary, BBC Studios strives to be the best British content company in the world, attracting the best creatives talents to bring premium quality content, brands and products to the world, no matter where you are.

Why? We generate revenue for the BBC to reinvest into content as well as enhancing the BBC’s creative reputation, building awareness and supporting the wider British creative industries. Outside the UK, we are the BBC and we have big growth targets.

Our multi-function product and technology team is at the forefront of Studios digital growth agenda. We build and operate the Studios direct-to-consumer products such as Britbox, Top Gear, BBC.com and are in our next phase of evolution in order to position ourselves to contribute to the digital growth agenda.

Main Responsibilities

As a recent graduate we want to give you the experience and skills to kick start your career. Over the first two years, you’ll be rotated across the technical environment and products to gain valuable hands-on technical experience of…

• front-end development (React, next.js, TypeScript),
• back-end development (node.js, SQL, Serverless) and
• cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker),

These experiences will help you emerge as a well-rounded full stack developer.

We want you to build your skills in a highly skilled, safe environment based on trust and transparency before deciding what you enjoy and where you want to take your career – we can then help you get there.

Are you the right candidate?

We want recent graduates that want to apply what you’ve learnt against industry problems. You’ll have a curiosity, open mind, appetite and aptitude to learn. We want those that are enthusiastic about problem solver and are confident about working within a team of technical and non-technical individuals. We are a small but growing team so your opportunities will be wide and your contribution noticed.

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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

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London

We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us on [email protected] with ref: BBC/TP/XXX in the subject.

We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates.

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.