BBC Jobs Near Me – Software Engineer

About the job

Job Introduction

Great TV and radio brings people together. The BBC’s news, sport and entertainment programming is woven into millions of people’s lives, here in the UK and around the world. BBC Media Services provides the workflows that prepare, transcode and package that content, and make it available to stream over the internet. We don’t work on the apps the user sees, but without us those apps would have nothing to play.

Role Responsibility

We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive Junior Software Engineer in Test to join one of our Agile squads. This is your chance to develop your testing career with a globally respected media organisation, build your skills in AWS cloud technologies, and help ensure a smooth and reliable streaming experience as users do more and more of their listening and viewing online.

You’ll be working with microservices running in the cloud that chain together to provide AV processing workflows. This presents some interesting test automation challenges, so if you fancy breaking out of the comfort zone with something a little different from the usual Selenium/Cucumber stack, this could be the opportunity for you.

Are you the right candidate?

We do a mix of manual and automated testing, so as well as being a competent coder, you’ll need to be skilled in exploratory testing and able to explain bugs clearly. We are currently renewing and expanding our frameworks so experience in any programming language is relevant.

You don’t need to understand AV streaming technologies — we’ll train you on the job — but we need someone who’s eager to roll up their sleeves and learn about how our ecosystem works under the bonnet.

Package Description

Band: C

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid / London (W12)

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.

About The BBC

We believe in empowering people to solve problems creatively, so we won’t stifle you with paperwork or overburden you with process, but you’ll always get the support you need from your peers and your Team Lead.

We hold regular Innovation Days to work on hacks, and we encourage everyone to spend 10% of their time on side projects. We also offer a wide variety of training resources, including O’Reilly, Pluralsight and LinkedIn learning.

We are hybrid workers, based in London. We generally visit the office every week or so, although it’s fine to come in more if that suits you.

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 in the document attached below.

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

Attached documents

• Our BBC Values