Software Engineering
Permanent - Full Time
Salford, GB, M50 2QH
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 10/11/2024
THE ROLE
Package Description
Job Reference: 18887
Band: D
Salary: £57, 350 to £67,350 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Salford - Dock House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
Closing Date: 10th November 2024
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
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.
Job Introduction
We are looking for a Senior Android/iOS Software Engineer to join the Bitesize App team.
BBC Bitesize is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved educational brands, and we’re looking for a passionate member to join our collaborative, cross-discipline, agile team.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Bitesize App team, you will be one of the technical experts in the Android/iOS engineering space. We want to ensure that our applications continue to be world class, and we are looking for someone who is passionate about application architecture and engineering excellence, and who is motivated by the challenge of ensuring that our application is fit to meet our product ambitions of the future.
In the Bitesize App team we have a small, self-organising and highly collaborative team of engineers, testers, UX designers, technical architects and product owners.
We value our engineers, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as ‘10% time’ – allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.
We take the time to reflect and improve on how we’re working via team retrospectives and mentoring. We’re a hard-working team who are supportive, care about each other, and promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.
Interview Process:
* Live pair programming exercise with two of our software engineers which you get in advance of your assessment centre date
* Blended interview questions with two of our software engineers
* Interviews commencing the week starting the 18th of November*this may be subject to change
Main Responsibilities
* Playing a key role in the technical direction of the Bitesize App, ensuring our application architecture is fit for the future
* Hands on coding, pairing with other engineers on a daily basis
* Positively influencing our engineering culture by demonstrating the right behaviours and attitudes
* Mentoring and coaching other team members, ensuring a high standard of engineering excellence within our product
* Advocate new technologies and approaches to ensure our products are industry leading
* Providing domain expertise across the team.
* Collaborating with other departments across the BBC around shared concerns
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.
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 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.
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.
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