Software Engineer
Job Reference: 20613
Band: C
Salary: £45,000-£55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
As a Software Engineer within Mobile Playback, you’ll be joining a team of engineers developing our Media Player components, the core playback engine of all video and audio content across the BBC online.
Main Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer you will contribute to the development of features, fix bugs and issues, review code from others in the team and make a key contribution to the entire development lifecycle, from conception, discovery through development and delivery.
We care about code quality and clean architecture. We work in Kotlin and Java (Android) and Swift and Objective-C (iOS) so you will need experience writing software for at least one of these platforms. You will also have opportunities to grow and specialise. We want you to be passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can have.
Are you the right candidate
* Proven experience in mobile development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C.
* Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies.
* A good understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design.
* A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments.
* Experience of managing code in source control systems such as Github.
Beneficial
* A solid grounding of object-oriented programming techniques and a good understanding of software design patterns.
* An ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
* Experience of using continuous integration tools like Github Actions.
* Experience of working with bug tracking tools (eg. Jira) and wikis (eg. Confluence).
* API development and management.
* Experience of media streaming protocols and standards (eg. HLS, MPEG DASH).
* Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment.
* Experience working in agile teams.
* Experience of pair programming.
* Experience developing for memory constrained devices.
* Experience of Amazon Web Services.
Job Impact
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. 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.
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.
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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