Junior Software Engineer

Package Description

Job Reference: 22405

Band: C

Salary: Up to £39,000 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: Office Base is Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

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.

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Job Introduction

This role is for a Junior Software Engineer in the Sounds Smart Speakers team. The Sounds Smart Speakers team develop BBC voice experiences on multiple platforms. The team look after the existing Alexa skill, which has over two million weekly unique users, and are responsible for delivering BBC Sounds to future emerging voice platforms.

Main Responsibilities

We’re looking for strong collaborators who thrive in an agile team environment. Our engineering technology is Javascript and Typescript using NodeJS, hosted on AWS using technologies such AWS Lambda.

•    Contributing to the technical roadmap for the core capabilities Sounds on Smart speakers

•    Collaboration with the wider iPlayer & Sounds teams

•    Providing operational support of the team’s services

•    Advocating for our 4 million users!

Are you the right candidate?

You will have experience designing and writing software for large scale applications in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles. You will be passionate about developing and progressing within the team whilst balancing the needs of the our audiences. We’re a highly collaborative department, focused on continual improvement and learning. We’ve long since embraced Dev Ops, with AWS as our primary platform.

Fridays are reserved for personal development and cross-team guilds, something you'll have the opportunity to be involved in and champion.

It's okay if you don't have all of the experience - simply complete the application and tell us why you believe you're a suitable candidate and we will consider your application on the evidence provided.

Previous experience to include some of:

•    JavaScript / NodeJS

•    AWS

•    Agile

•    TypeScript preferred

•    Some development experience with Alexa or other smart speaker platforms would be advantageous

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.

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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.