Software Engineer

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Requisition: 20680
Band: C
Salary range: Up to £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights
Contract type: 22-month fixed term contract
Location: Remote
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

Corporate Digital & Applications (CDA) is a high-performing department that builds a wide array of internal applications to serve our talented BBC colleagues. We look after the BBC’s intranet, internal mobile applications, public-facing corporate sites, and dozens of internal bespoke web applications. Almost every person in the BBC uses at least one of our systems every week, and our audience-facing sites receive millions of views from the public every month.
We’re looking for an experienced full-stack engineer to work on a vital web-based scheduling system called Allocate. Allocate is used by our BBC News and radio production colleagues to help them plan shift work, and increasingly by other teams too.
We are a very supportive team and have a genuine interest in helping our engineers grow. You’ll be encouraged to take regular personal development time to give you the space to learn something new and help you take the next step in your career.

ABOUT THE BBC

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.
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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

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.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

As a software engineer working on Allocate you’ll be working with PHP, SQL Server and jQuery so familiarity with these technologies is key. You’ll be involved with a wide range of tasks, from optimising slow running SQL queries, establishing and maintaining standards, untangling user flows with the help of diagrams or planning improvements to new or existing features.
This role is ideal for an engineer looking to step up into a senior position in the future given a large part of the role involves reviewing code, setting standards, optimising code, and organising and prioritising work.
Alongside our principal and senior engineers, you’ll work with a third-party engineering team on Allocate. You should be good at making pragmatic decisions and clearly communicating technical concepts.
There will no doubt be opportunities to contribute to other exciting projects in CDA, so some experience or a willingness to learn other technologies such as React, Node.js and AWS is a bonus.