BBC UK Jobs – Software Engineering

About the job

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead to help us expand our mobile

app teams in Salford. You will have a leading role in an engineering team responsible for Mobile News that delivers an intuitive and engaging experience to millions of audience

members every day.

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career

The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. We are looking for Software Engineering Team Leads to join the team. These are great opportunities to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

The BBC offers an inclusive workplace where the principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of our everyday goals and behaviour. We select candidates for our positions on the basis of merit and as an equal opportunity employer we value diversity and all of the benefits it brings.

Role Responsibility

People

• Key role in leading a multidisciplinary team
• Line management responsibilities for 4/5 engineers
• Assisting with recruiting and onboarding new team members
• Mentoring and developing team members and peers to help them to reach their potential
• Inspiring and motivating the team to help them deliver a world class streaming experience
• Help to foster a collaborative and inclusive culture across Audience Content Experience, which includes News & Sport, Childrens, Education & Longtail, Content Discovery and Channels & Product Excellence.

Technical Leadership

• Building, maintaining and evolving a Mobile News App
• Playing a key role in the technical direction of Mobile News
• Advocate new technologies and approaches to ensure our products are industry leading
• Providing domain expertise across the mobile teams
• Ensuring a high standard of engineering excellence within our product

Delivery

• Work with cross discipline partners to plan and commit to quarterly deliverables
• Work with stakeholders across the News & Sport organisation to align with goals and mission
• Delivering features using agile development practices
• Seeking out new tools and methodologies to evolve our development processes

Are you the right candidate?

Ideal Candidate

• Have the ability to lead, coach mentor and line manage a team of 4+ engineers
• Have experience working with cross discipline peers including Product Managers, Delivery Mangers and Design Leads
• Be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in an organisation
• Strong Android experience, with deep understanding of Android app architecture and design idioms
• Proficient in Kotlin and Java
• Strong understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design
• Demonstrable understanding of Test-Driven Development
• Experience of source control systems such as Git
• A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments
• Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies

Desirable

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience with both Android and iOS development
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment in mobile apps
• Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/Kanban project management methodologies
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services

Package Description

Band: D

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Salford – Quay House

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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18 th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18 fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

About The BBC

The BBC is the third most visited website in the UK, servicing 10s of millions of people each week. We reach around 95% of the UK population with our services each and every week. These services include BBC News, Sport, Childrens, Weather and our world class stream services, iPlayer and Sounds. Our services play a crucial role in the BBC’s remit to inform, educate and entertain.

BBC Product Group, where our services sit in the organisation, is responsible for our websites, platform systems and content production that enable us to deliver a world class service to the British public and beyond. We work in a functional model where all of engineering, product and delivery work together to deliver and support our services. Our values of trust, empowerment, helpfulness, learning and diversity are at the core of the BBC and are reflected in the decisions we make.

Each team within each of our areas can vary in size and scope but always comprise of highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an Agile way. Each team is made up of engineers, testers, UX designers where needed, delivery enablers and product owners. Across our engineering teams we pride ourselves on having a kind, helpful, learning based culture, where everyone can be their best. We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self improvement, learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable, guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.

As an engineering discipline we have a focus on the following areas:

• Being the place to work – we want people in the tech industry to choose the BBC as the best place to grow, learn, create and deliver rewarding projects
• Building the best – we aim to create the very best digital products at scale
• Strong leadership – we strive to have our engineering leaders work together on our goals and build strong, open and diverse teams
• Operational excellence – we want to ensure our services are second to none in quality and reliability
• Clear technical strategy – we want to make sure that we have a clear direction and a pragmatic tech strategy that we can execute together

Application submission

One of the core values of the BBC is a commitment to diversity and inclusivity. As such, we accept CVs and answers to screening questions in written, audio and video formats.

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

• BBC Values