Software Engineering Team Lead

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JOB BAND: DCONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-timeDEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - BitesizeLOCATION: Glasgow – Pacific QuayPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £75,000 - £85,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE Our Bitesize team is currently looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead to help them develop the future of their education product. We are in an exciting time where we are looking to evolve Bitesize, so it adapts to our user needs. We are ensuring we deliver curriculum-aligned content for students, teachers and parents to support their learning journey. This team lead will be supporting our Glasgow team as they develop critical features and capabilities. You will guide engineers to perform at their best, support their career aspirations, and work closely with other discipline leads and editorial stakeholders. The team lead is critical to delivering high-quality, sustainable solutions that meet user needs. It involves guiding engineering approaches and best practices with other engineering leaders to ensure we meet high expectations for engineering quality. WHY JOIN THE TEAM We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We have fostered a collaborative and supportive culture not just within engineering, but across disciplines, teams and areas. We are proud of our values, which are intrinsic to how we behave daily and are central to our culture. There will be interesting and exciting engineering problems for you to solve with your team, while working on a modern full-stack infrastructure used across the BBC’s web estate. You will work in partnership with teams that support BBC’s other flagship brands. We pride ourselves on supporting each person to develop themselves and enhance their careers. You will have a range of learning tools and time available, and a manager focused on developing you as a leader. You will be able to shape the future of one of Britain’s most well-known education tools and have an impact on the lives of millions of children through your work. YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is hybrid, combining expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing 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. Work with department leaders to foster a positive and diverse culture and align across teams. Technical Expertise: Collaborate across the technical community to improve software, share knowledge and improve processes/practices. User Focus: Deliver solutions that meet the needs of our users.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development. Experience building user-facing accessible front-end products using web technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS. Experience building APIs and back-end services using AWS technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, CloudFormation. Skilled in managing multiple product and technical priorities with practical decision making in a collaborative cross-disciplinary team. Experience measuring, shaping and improving agile practices to ensure continuous delivery.
DESIRED:
Experience working on large mono-repo products backed by design systems. Experience leading a team’s approach to operational stability and incident management. Experience with experimentation and data-driven decision making.
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. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks including Reference checks, Eligibility to work checks, and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. 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. Information at a Glance This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain. Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC Here you will benefit from:
Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. Excellent career and professional development. Support in your working life, including flexible working. A values-based organisation where the way we do things is as important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis. Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack. You belong We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong and thrive. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below. Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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