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

This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of the world’s leading news and media organisations. The role will be within BBC News Design, the Junior Software Engineer will be a key member of a vibrant graphic design development team on English and non-English language Broadcast & video platforms innovating new, bespoke solutions while maintaining and improving existing systems.

The Broadcast Software Engineers make News graphics that function in real time, from standard on-screen graphics, to data visualisation, Touchscreens, studio screens, election results, data fed AR & VR 3D graphics and everything else that BBC News Design requires on it’s output.

Main Responsibilities

• Creating journalist controlled templated graphics according to a design brief.
• To have creative input on complex projects.
• Deliver projects in a fast paced News environment to tight deadlines.
• Develop effective software that meets given specifications with review and mentoring by others in the team.
• Help to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Learn and participate in the team’s software development methodologies such as code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery
• Learn new technologies and keep informed of existing technologies.

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for a Junior Software Engineer with a broad knowledge of JS, HTML and CSS. Knowledge of, or an interest in graphic design, animation & news is desirable. You will work closely with other Software engineers, graphic designers and Creative Directors.

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: Continuing
Location: London

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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.