Senior Software Engineer

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. 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

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.

We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.

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. You will have a real opportunity to influence the technical

direction of a product that is to aid children in education every day.

 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 and a friendly working environment.

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.

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.