JavaScript Engineer

Package Description

Salary: £35,000 – £45,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: London, hybrid (1 day per week in the office)

Closing date for applications is on Sunday 20th April 2025 at 23:59

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 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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected].  For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Job Introduction

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed.  We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day.  We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive.  We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

Our engineers receive 10% development time built into the 35 hour working week.  We want to give you the time and space to stay fresh in the ever-changing technology landscape. Enjoy a flexible work setup with one day a week in the London office, combining in-person collaboration with the benefits of remote work.

Come work on fantastically high-scale systems with us!

Here’s a snapshot of your individualised growth plan

We commit to supporting your on-boarding, growth and development from your very first day. Below are general goals, however we will discuss, amend and tailor them to your specific development needs when you join us.

Within a month:

•    You’ll complete Onboarding, Mandatory Training and inductions

•    You’ll be onboarded in the team’s ways of working and given a detailed introduction to the systems and tools that we build

•    You’ll meet the rest of the team, learn about the tech stack, partner teams, history, and where your team is going.

•    You’ll have 1-2-1’s with line manager in place, have a development plan and a set of goals for your 6 months

•    Actively participate in pair programming sessions, working closely with other engineers to write maintainable and efficient code

•    Take a structured and professional approach to engineering, ensuring high-quality development.

The Interview Process:

There are two interview assessments:

1. Live pair programming exercise with two of our software engineers which you get in advance of your interview date
2. Blended interview questions with two of our software engineers

We aim to make our recruitment process a snapshot into our culture and what it's like to work here.

Main Responsbilities

As a Junior JavaScript Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work with experienced developers on a wide range of technologies that drive our products forward. You will also have the opportunity to work with Delivery Managers and Product Managers to influence the future of BBC iPlayer, and make it the indispensable video destination! You'll be part of a team working on high-scale backend systems that power BBC iPlayer. You'll contribute to:

•    Work with other developers in the team to design, develop & release working software using best practices

•    Pair programming with teammates to solve problems and share knowledge.

•    Learn new technologies and adapt to change

•    Work in a cross-discipline environment

•    Monitoring and deploying changes with guidance from senior developers.

•    Writing and updating documentation as you learn and grow.

Are you the right candidate

You don’t need to know it all – we’re here to support your learning journey! However, we value the following skills:

•    Learning new software skills and working with new technologies

•    Being curious, kind and a great team-worker

•    Experience using technologies for building Javascript or Typescript server side applications and an understanding of HTTP API concepts

•    Basic understanding of database concepts.

•    Experience of testing code

•    An awareness and desire to learn cloud technologies and the skills to build distributed backend systems (we use AWS)

About the BBC

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 here.

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.