PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Requisition: 22582
Band: C
Salary: £49,500 – £56,600 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London Energy Centre, hybrid
Closing date for applications is on Monday 21st April 2025 at 23:59
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

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer, with a good balance of technical and communication skills. You will be working with project and product managers, business analysts and technical leads to understand requirements and implement suitable technical solutions.
This is a vital role as you will enhance the content that stimulates, emotes and improves our understanding of the BBC News that we consume, through the innovation of web technologies and automations. You will work on the tools to embed the graphics that enables the audience to consume and better connect with powerful stories.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE

Here are the technical skills we are looking for, you may have experience of some, but not necessarily all of them:

• Designing and writing front-end software ( ES2018 / ReactJS / VueJS / SCSS )
• Designing and writing back-end software ( Node.js / typescript )
• Using CI/CD & cloud technologies (such as AWS) to build and deploy solutions
• Software testing best practices and knowledge of at least one testing framework
• Expertise in choosing and applying design patterns and coding best practices
• Ability to rapidly acquire new technical skills and to work with new technologies

Other desirable skills are:

• Experience with Greensock GSAP or any Javascript based animation framework
• Experience with broadcast technologies and frameworks such as Sofie or CasparCG
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, CEF, Jenkins or Github Actions
• Experience with messaging servers such as ActiveMQ, AWS SQS

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.
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

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

Hi! We’re the Graphics and Automation team and we provide software solutions for the creators of content across the BBC.
Our software integrates with broadcast systems used in the BBC to automate workflows and animate graphics. It is also used to manage programme information, such as running orders and metadata.

We build user interfaces for our tools using:

• Responsive web clients ( ES2018 / ReactJS / SCSS )
• Internal design framework (GEL) and its React implementation

We build back-ends for our tools using:

• Node.js + Typescript
• Java + Spring