Software Engineering Team Lead

Package Description

Band: D

Salary Range: £65,000 - £75,000

Contract type: permanent

Location: Salford – Dock House (Hybrid - 1 to 2 days in the office)

Closing Date: 29/07/2024

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on [email protected] with the job reference in the subject.

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Introduction

Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience of engineering systems? Are you keen to lead, grow, and develop a team of talented engineers? Do you strive to create an environment in which people can flourish and be their best? Would you like to work on services that are used by millions of people each day? If so, this opportunity could be for you.

We are currently looking for a talented Software Engineering Team Lead to lead the iPlayer Off-Product team in Partnerships.  The Off-Product team is responsible for creating and maintaining a Business-to-Business (B2B) API to provide an up to date and consistent catalogue and schedule for all of the BBC’s television and video-on-demand partners, including most of the big names in the industry.

You will be a current or aspiring technology leader who has a passion for leading world class engineering teams and developing, guiding, and mentoring people. You will be working within one of our engineering teams within the BBC digital ecosystem. Here, you will be working in partnership with the other supportive roles in the multi-disciplinary team, to deliver best in class product experiences, drive forward our technologies and support your engineers. You will be supported by the senior leadership within your area to enable you to build and develop your team and the people within it.

Interview process

Virtual interview – approx. 2.5 hours of technical, leadership and values-based questions, including a coding assessment

Interviews to commence the 5th of August

Main Responsibilities

The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineers day to day and their careers.

The focus of the role includes:

People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.

Environment: Create the environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.

Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software.

Are you the right candidate?

To give you an idea of what we’re looking for you would ideally have experience in some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas and technologies:

• ·Proven experience of hands-on technical and people leadership within a team
•  Experience growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
•  Experience of designing, building, and supporting robust, large-scale cloud-based back-end systems in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
•  Proficient in Node.JS (JavaScript/TypeScript) and AWS Serverless technologies using Test Driven Development techniques.
•  Ability to effectively communicate with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment.
• Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making.
• As a Software Engineering Team Lead you’ll have a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. You’ll have previously worked in one or more agile software teams and have experience in designing and building high-scale robust applications.
• You’ll promote a culture of continual improvement, enjoy solving complex problems and be tenacious in your approach.
• You’ll have excellent communication skills and be able to explain problems in a way that enables a range of colleagues to understand and engage with the pros and cons of technical options.
• You’ll have experience of mentoring and coaching team members of all levels and be committed to helping with their continued professional and career development.
• You’ll have a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. You’ll promote your skills, share your knowledge, and contribute to the evolution of best practices throughout the department and with the wider engineering community across the BBC.

Tech stack

For development we use JavaScript and NodeJS. We create and support reliable and scalable services and serverless applications on AWS. We use Git and GitHub for version control, practice Continuous Delivery and use approaches such as Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming.

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.](http://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.)