BBC Hiring for Mobile Software Engineer – Mobile Playback Job at Salford, North West England, England Full Time

The BBC Mobile Platform, part of Media Services, is an integral part of the BBC’s
digital-first strategy, delivering consistent user experiences and core functionality
across the BBC’s mobile estate.
As a Software Engineer within Mobile Playback, you’ll be joining a team of engineers
developing our Media Player components, the core playback engine of all video and
audio content across the BBC online. The BBC is recognised throughout the world
for the quality of the content that we produce and the programmes that we
broadcast. We are looking for high calibre developers with a passion for technology
to help us transform the experience for our audience when consuming media in the
digital age.
The media components we build are right at the heart of the BBC’s best loved
products including iPlayer, Sounds, News and Sport to name just a few. Whether
you’re catching up on last night’s episode of EastEnders, listening to Radio 1 or
jumping right into live sporting action, our media player provides a robust, reliable
and consistent playback experience.

Main Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer you will contribute to the development of features, fix bugs
and issues, review code from others in the team and make a key contribution to the
entire development lifecycle, from conception, discovery through development and
delivery.
We care about code quality and clean architecture. We work in Kotlin and Java
(Android) and Swift and Objective-C (iOS) so you will need experience writing
software for at least one of these platforms. You’ll be happy to discuss technical
details with the rest of the engineering team, contributing to discussions and
communicating your own ideas.
You will also have opportunities to grow and specialise. We want you to be
passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can
have. You’ll need a desire to keep learning and growing, which support with cross-team
groups, meet-ups and chapters focussed on topics such as Android and iOS
development, accessibility, security, development practices, continuous delivery and
many other areas of interest.
We are looking for an experienced engineer who is excited by, and keen to pursue a
career working with mobile software components. You will care about quality code,
love collaboration, experimentation and are a confident communicator.
You will be interested in mastering your test driven development approach to
produce systems isolated from framework dependencies.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential

• Proven experience in mobile development experience in one ore more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective.
• Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies.
• A good understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design.
• Demonstrable Test Driven Development
• A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments
• Experience of managing code in source control systems such as Github

Beneficial

• A solid grounding of object orientated programming techniques and a good understanding of software design patterns.
• An ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience of using continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
• Experience of working with bug tracking tools (eg. Jira) and wikis (eg. Confluence)
• API development and management

Desirable

• Experience developing media players for mobile platforms.
• Experience of media streaming protocols and standards (eg. HLS, MPEG DASH).
• Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment
• Experience working in agile teams.
• Experience of pair programming.
• Experience developing for memory constrained devices.
• Linux administration, shell scripting
• Experience of Amazon Web Services
• Building and managing Jenkins Pipelines

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: D
Contract type: Permanent – Full time
Location: Salford

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/

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