AWS & Node.js Senior Software Engineer

BBC

Job Details

Salary: £57,000-£67,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Band: D

Location: Office Base is Salford, MediaCityUK, Dock House. Hybrid role; office attendance each Wednesday, infrequent travel for ad hoc TV device access.

Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose Of The Role

The BBC is one of the UK’s most well‑known and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch or listen to BBC content.

The Interactive TV teams within this department build and support the BBC’s ‘big screen’ experiences, including iPlayer, Sounds and live events across our broadcast and connected TV platforms.

We’re looking for enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers to join our agile team, where you’ll help shape the future of TV products for millions of viewers. This role blends platform engineering, and developer experience, offering the chance to work on diverse technical challenges that drive our teams forward.

Based in MediaCityUK, Salford, you’ll join our TV Enablement team to deliver a world‑class connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds.

Interview Process

One stage virtual assessment centre combining a live pair programming test and an interview with our software engineering teams.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Be an advocate for an inclusive culture, and help all members of the team contribute to work and be heard.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering professional growth.
• Write and review code written in JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, to a high standard. Providing constructive comments in reviews.
• Create and adapt solutions using AWS services, to manage high traffic applications that serve millions of users every day.
• Integrate monitoring and support tools to achieve operational excellence.
• Utilise modern testing standards and techniques to ensure code meets functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Lead technical projects from understanding requirements through to completed delivery.
• Play an active role in agile planning, delivery processes, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with several other multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Create, review, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to support current and future development.

Essential Your Skills And Experience

• Motivation to learn, share knowledge with others, and be able to mentor both junior and mid‑level engineers.
• Experience in architecting and delivering projects using AWS using CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, CodePipeline/CodeBuild, and CloudWatch.
• Good inter‑personal communication skills, and able to communicate effectively with different disciplines, or people of different technical knowledge levels.
• Experience delivering sizable projects to completion, using agile methodologies, able to break down delivery of solutions from epics to small parallelisable tasks.
• Knowledge of addressing operational concerns such as monitoring, performance testing, scaling, availability, resilience, and security. Handling incidents, and post‑incident review processes.
• Be a positive proactive influence on your team’s culture, ways‑of‑working, and technical output, skills, and knowledge.

Desirable (Not necessary to apply)

• In‑depth knowledge of AWS technologies, or AWS accreditations/qualifications.
• Out Of Hours/On Call engineer experience.
• Knowledge or experience of DORA metrics.
• Knowledge or experience with SAST/DAST.
• Experience with complex deployment systems.
• Experience with mono/multi‑tenant repo tooling.Experience with AWS CDK.
• Knowledge of HbbTV/DVB standards.

Additional Information

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

Contact

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.