BBC Hiring for Senior Software Engineers, Group Platform Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career.

BBC Audience Platform is one of the BBC’s biggest and most ambitious online projects. We aim to personalise the online and mobile device experience and engage more effectively with our audience. We are responsible for providing account and recommendations services for our audience members, notification and participation services (including comments and voting platforms) and big-data warehousing, analytics and insights services. You will be part of a team transforming the BBC into a data-driven organisation supporting delivery of the BBC’s services such as iPlayer, News, Sport, Children, Weather, Radio and TV to millions of people.

Within Audience Platform we have three focus areas: BBC Account, Audience Data & Analytics, and Personalisation & Participation. Each area consists of a selection of highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an Agile way. Each team is made up of engineers, testers, UX designers, delivery enablers and product owners. Across Audience Platform we pride ourselves on having a kind, helpful, learning-based culture, where everyone can be their best.

We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable, guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.

Inclusion & Diversity

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please visit our dedicated site here where you can discover the variety of staff networks we have, read our D&I strategy and reports, and learn about our ambitious Creative Diversity initiative which aims to transform the content the BBC creates.

Main Responsibilities

Role and Responsibility

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will support the design and implementation of our software applications at a vast scale, guiding the wider engineering community to create industry-leading products and crafting well-architected and consistent code.

You’ll be building new features and looking after the mission-critical Single-Sign-On platform for all the BBC public services. We strive to deliver elegant user experiences, as well as a service that’s performant and reliable which scales to millions of users, in a secure manner. You will be a mentor and will coach other team members, ensuring a high standard of engineering excellence within our product. You will also need to collaborate with the BBC’s technical leadership team to help define and implement best practices when developing and deploying software.

The Account team is a dynamic Agile team that strives to embody the principles of DevOps – every team member is fully empowered to improve, release and operate our services. The software that we own and operate is written in Java and Javascript (NodeJS). To help provide our access and identity services, we make use of several ForgeRock products such as ForgeRock Access Management, ForgeRock Identity Management and ForgeRock Directory Services (OpenDJ/LDAP).

Our services are entirely cloud-native – we own and operate our own Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and make use of a wide range of AWS services such as AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS and Amazon Kinesis. We build and deploy software using Jenkins pipelines and tooling written in Python and shell.

We don’t need you to be an expert on any of these, but any experience using these products would be great.

We would like you to apply if you have:

• Excellent development skills and experience building highly scalable and secure applications: ideally in Java, JavaScript and Python or equivalent
• Proficiency in good software architecture principles and leading development practices
• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure: ideally Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience of working in an agile environment and within a collaborative team
• Passion for the work we do and the desire to deepen your experience and learn new things

Are you the right candidate?

We would like to speak with you if you have experience developing and supporting large, complex systems at scale with modern tools, in addition to cloud infrastructure and automation techniques.

We’re keen to speak with people who have experience working on different projects and professional software development processes including Agile, continuous integration/delivery and test-driven development, as well as supporting software in a production enterprise environment. We value experience communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in an organisation.

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 behaviors 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, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, Cardiff, Salford, 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.