BBC Hiring for Junior Software Engineer Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

The World Service team exists to serve its audience across the world with access to impartial news in 41 languages in formats that are accessible to everyone regardless of geography, technology, connectivity and individual requirements. We work for the 1.5 billion users who visit us each year.

The successful candidate will work with an immediate team of 5-8 software engineers, UX, Product and test to deliver audience and organisational value.

We can offer flexible work hours (compressed hours, reduced hours, differing start & end times) and a welcoming team culture that values learning, cooperation, and empathy above all else.

Main Responsibilities

As Junior Software Engineer in World Service, you will help deploy and operate websites that are used by millions of users. You‘ll be part of a cross-functional team creating robust, performant software that operates at vast scale.

What are the responsibilities?

• Write code (React, Javascript, node, webpack, CSS, HTML etc) to be deployed onto AWS infrastructure
• Code review your peers’ work and promote best practices within the team

Are you the right candidate?

As an organisation we support all of our colleagues in gaining new skills and experience. To be successful in this role you may have experience of some, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• Good working knowledge of JavaScript (ideally with React, but training will be provided) with ambition to become a specialist
• Experience with node.js
• HTML and CSS proficiency in a monolingual site, although knowledge of internationalisation would be ideal
• Have built websites from local environment into production
• Experience with a framework other than React (not necessarily JS)
• Awareness of test driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)
• Awareness of CI/CD – what it is, how it works
• Some knowledge of cloud computing – e.g. AWS – would be a plus
• Competence in developing for operational concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, security considerations)
• Software Engineering / Computer Science Degree OR code school training equivalent OR equivalent industry experience

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
Location: Glasgow – Pacific Quay

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.