BBC Careers Near Me – Software Developers

About the job

Job Description

Band: C and D

Contract type: Permanent

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.

Job Introduction:

We have a number of opportunities to work with us to build the next generation of our BBC News (UK, World Service, and Global News), BBC Weather and BBC Learning English apps, used and loved by millions. Our welcoming and supportive team culture has grown organically from our shared values of

• High-quality, user-focused, products
• Knowledge sharing
• Continuous improvement
• Personal growth
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Accessibility
• Mentoring and coaching
• Pairing

You can expect to work in close collaboration with all of the other disciplines in our team (such as Product, UX, Test and Delivery), in a highly cross-functional and autonomous environment with support and guidance from our leadership.

You will care equally as much about user value, as business value, and code quality, and you’ll appreciate the benefits of the right planning and communication to the delivery of these things.

Regardless of your target audience, you will be an effective and clear communicator, able to be a spokesperson and champion, representing your team to others in the business when needed.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide technical knowledge and insight to develop great products and experiences for millions of people worldwide.
• Contribute to a healthy and supportive high-performing team culture that encourages best practices to deliver iteratively, rapidly, and with high quality.
• Champion testing with pragmatism to ensure we always deliver the best value and quality.
• Help us to recruit, mentor and coach the next generation of engineers through our very popular graduate, trainee and step into tech programmes.
• Help to plan and execute larger technical integration and strategy initiatives to support business and user needs.
• Communicate effectively to all levels and disciplines of the team.
• Collaborate with your peers in the broader organisation.
• Keep informed of relevant technological changes, helping introduce them (or not!) as appropriate.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of live issues.

Are you the right candidate?

You may be just the candidate we are looking for if you can show that you meet a significant portion of the following criteria (unless marked as required). We do not require you to be a senior engineer in your current role – you simply need to demonstrate experience and potential. For the successful candidate, we are able to offer coaching, mentoring, and training to support your success.

1. Extensive experience working on a native apps focused team using core Android/iOS technologies including Kotlin and/or Java
2. Collaborate in the design, development, deployment and support of robust software for large scale applications, in a fast changing environment, with rapid release cycles.
3. Passion and knowledge for testing, test automation, and broader testing concerns.
4. Working in a highly lean and agile, cross-functional, team.
5. Effective communication, and collaboration, both inside and outside the team from engineering peers to diverse stakeholders.
6. Mentorship and/or coaching, especially of less experienced engineers.
7. Recruiting all engineering levels, with a particular interest in successful hiring for diversity and inclusivity.
8. Industry engagement, such as through talking at meetups, or conferences, participating in forums, contributing to interest groups/open source software, and/or blogging.