Senior Software Engineer

Glasgow, G , G511DA

| London, G , W1A 1AA

| Salford, G , M50 2QH

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent
DEPARTMENT: BBC Media Tech – Mobile Experiences

LOCATION:

Glasgow Pacific Quay or Salford Dock House or London Broadcasting House – 1 day a week Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £63,000 - £68,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

You’ll be working on the Mobile Enablement team, helping to provide tools, infrastructure and assistance to support teams building the BBC’s mobile apps for iOS and Android.

As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll play a key role building, maintaining and acquiring systems and services to help other BBC mobile teams build faster and align on technology and processes.

You will accelerate the team by mentoring colleagues, as well as engaging with teams across the organisation.

On the Mobile Enablement team you will find yourself in a central connecting role within the BBC mobile space. This is an opportunity to work on key fundamental areas with a wide impact and to build relationships with teams and colleagues to have an impact across the organisation, including all mobile apps.

We have a primary focus of supporting software engineers providing a unique opportunity to engage with the needs of technical colleagues.

• Developing and maintaining systems and infrastructure to support mobile app development within the BBC
• Working through the product lifecycle from requirements through to release and ongoing support, with an emphasis on working closely with internal stakeholders in the mobile app space.
• Participate in agile practices code reviews and other measures to contribute to a culture of openness, quality and continuous improvement
• Liaising with colleagues in teams across the organisation to gather requirements, provide support, troubleshoot
• Supporting the systems provided by our team and responding to incoming requests from colleagues

• Technical Insight (Cloud technologies):
  Experience and expertise building in AWS, including Code Build, Code Pipeline, EC2, Lambda, Docker, Cloudwatch
• Supporting production systems:
  Experience and knowledge of supporting systems and concerns such as reliability, monitoring, dealing with live incidents and conducting Post Incident Reviews
• Quality coding practices: such as testing, security concerns, meaningful PR feedback, and appropriate documentation for different audiences
• Stakeholder Management:
  
  Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate with a broad range of colleagues, technical and non-technical, both within a team and across other internal organisation clients.
• Team Building:
  Experience Mentoring more junior colleagues, improving team processes and contributing to building high-performing teams

• Technical Insight (Mobile Apps):
  
  Knowledge and experience of native mobile app development
• Technical Insight(MacOS build machines):
  Using MacOS as a CI build environment
• Technical Insight(GCP):
  Google Cloud Platform administration including Firebase
• Technical Insight(CI/CD): CI/CD workflows using Git Hub Actions
• Expertise in one or more languages commonly used in AWS development such as Python including relevant experience of automated testing

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.

Please note:

If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks;
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