BBC Hiring for Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer CARDIFF Job at Cardiff, Wales Full Time

The Internal Digital Tools team produce key strategic web applications for staff across the BBC. Many of these are high profile, and involve senior stakeholders in areas like Information Security, News and Program makers.

The BBC is going through an extraordinary strategic change and Internal Digital Tools is at the heart of this. We are building the next generation of world class online tools to empower the organisations creatives.

We work quickly to build things that change the way people work, while following modern software development best practice.

Main Responsibilities

We’re looking for a react/JavaScript developer to join the team. Your role will be pivotal in creating responsive components for modern web development.

You’ll be creating hyper-usable web applications that melt red tape and bureaucratic processes; this is the business end of “Digital Transformation.”

We expect you to have experience writing some combination of JS, HTML, CSS, React, Lambdas, graphQL, SQL. We’re looking for familiarity with consuming and deploying APIs on AWS with some understanding of Full-Stack development. You’ll be keen on using best-practice web development frameworks and standards.

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:

Essential

• Experience creating front-end websites, with demonstrable knowledge of semantic HTML5, CSS3, and CSS pre-processors such as SCSS or LESS.

• Solid understanding of Javascript / ECMASctript based languages (ES6+ versions)

• Experience consuming data from and interacting with REST APIs.

• Experience of React Hooks, Functional components, and some knowledge of GraphQL

• Demonstrates a growth mindset and openness to change.

• Interest in modern web development tools, technologies, and techniques.

Desirable

• Experience of version control systems (Git, Subversion, etc).

• Experience of CI deployment pipelines

• Experience of developing dynamic web-apps based on atomic components.

• Understanding of Agile principles.

• Understanding of Unit Tests: how and when to write them.

• Experience producing front end applications with React

• Understanding and Experience of AWS, including Lambdas and serverless setups.

• A desire to create a fully accessible web.

• Basic Knowledge of TypeScript

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: Fixed Term
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.