Job Description

Software Engineering
Permanent - Full Time
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB, NE991RN
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 25/05/2025

THE ROLE

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Job Package

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Job Reference:

23351

Band:

D

Salary:

60,000 to 69,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Contract type:

Permanent

Location:

Office Base is Newcastle, This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working (office day is Wednesday)

Closing date for applications:

Sunday 25th May 2025




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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.




If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Job Introduction

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BBC Audiences are here to ensure we bring enough value to all Licence Fee paying households. We are a team filled with data analysts, researchers, planners, and marketing/data scientists. We use data, insight and market knowledge to put audiences at the heart of all creative and strategic decision-making. Simply put, we are the 'Voice of the Audience' for the BBC.




This role is within one of our data platform teams, within insight tooling. The data platform area brings together a collection of self-services capabilities to enable the BBC to make best of use of its data for analytical purposes. Insight tooling focuses on providing solutions for internal users enabling them to make data driven decisions.




This role is in our Audiences portal team. The audience portal is used by both internal external users, which provides quantitative data and qualitative research data for over 2000 users.

Main Responsibilities

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Take a structured and professional approach to engineering, ensuring high-quality development. Actively participate in pair programming sessions, working closely with other engineers to write maintainable and efficient code Drive the ambition to build an outstanding engineering team and culture. Conduct code reviews, maintain coding standards, and guidelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement requirements. Participate in and help improve the team's software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery. Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation. Lead troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle Mentor and coach more junior staff. Provide technical leadership and direction colleagues. Expertise in developing for operational and non-functional concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations).

Are you the right candidate

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Experience with the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance Experience of JavaScript, Typescript, Node JS and REACT Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns and best practices Experience of AWS Services such as S3, EC2, Lambda, SNS, RDS, Elasticsearch and ELB Experience of PostgreSQL Competence in database design and use of software applications.

About the BBC

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The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.




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 here.




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.

DISCLAIMER

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This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.