Senior Full Stack Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Full-Stack Engineer

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Account

LOCATION: Salford – Hybrid, London - Hybrid.

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £54,600 - £73,400 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose Of The Role

BBC Audience Platform is responsible for the platform systems at the centre of the BBC’s aim to make a personalised BBC Online for everyone. We create components, systems and services that enable people's experience of BBC Online to be tailored by their activities and interactions; everything from content recommendations in iPlayer, to enabling people to comment on BBC News articles. Our services enable and underpin offerings from the BBC's major brands including iPlayer, Sounds, BBC News, Sport, Bitesize and so much more; giving our services unparalleled reach. We’ve already enabled over ~50m people to create and use their BBC account every month, and have big ambitions to grow the product to reach hundreds of millions of people and help them get more out of the BBC.

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. Our welcoming, supportive and hybrid working culture has grown organically from our shared values of high-quality user-focused products, collaborative knowledge sharing, accessibility, mentoring and coaching, pairing, flexibility, continuous improvement, personal growth, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Why Join The Team

Our team uses the latest technologies, inspires innovation and has autonomy. We are highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an agile way. You will be working on great projects, and you will be surrounded by a team of like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow. This is an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional with our goal of taking the BBC on the journey to be a digital-first organisation.

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.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

As a Full-Stack Engineer in the BBC Account team, you will develop libraries and services that provide authorisation, authentication and personalisation capabilities. As a key member of this dynamic team you will be responsible for

• Analysing and solving complex problems to deliver innovative products to our clients and users.
• Developing high-quality code, tests, documentation and scripts; ensuring they are understandable, maintainable and minimise risk.
• Supporting members of the team with mentoring, pairing, code reviewing and driving the adoption of best practices.
• Learning about new technologies and techniques and assess their applicability and usefulness to our products and our clients.
• Providing support to other teams within the BBC with integration issues and problem solving.
• Use your experience with React, Node.js and Express to support client and server side products.
• Effective leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence diverse stakeholders effectively.

Your Skills And Experience

We’re looking for passionate developers who are excited by what's happening in the technology space, looking to challenge themselves.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

- Expertise in one or more mainstream development languages – we primarily use TypeScript, Java and JavaScript.
- Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services. Including experience with AWS; CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, WAF, ALB.
- Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team.
- An understanding of and experience with RESTful APIs.
- Experience communicating complex technical ideas in formal and informal settings to team members with a range of technical understanding.
- Expertise in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and CodePipeline).
- Working knowledge of Customer Identity and Authentication Management (CIAM) standards, such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

- Experience mitigating non-functional and operational concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, availability and resilience, security considerations).
- Experience working on zero down time systems and providing live support in the event of service disruption.
- Demonstrable experience with test-driven development.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This 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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.