React Job: Software Engineer

Job Introduction

We take a human-centred approach to software engineering, so when you join our talented team, you’ll enjoy plenty of collaborative learning and mentoring opportunities to take your expertise further.

The BBC is the perfect place for you to stretch yourself and work with the best. After all, celebrating our employees and investing in their well-being and development is not just a priority or an initiative — it is woven directly into our company fabric.

Main Responsibilities

When you join us as a Software Engineer at the BBC, you may expect to:

Collaborate with your team to further your software skills.
Write & test software to address our system's requirements.
Monitor the overall health of our systems.
Use CI/CD & AWS technologies to implement operational & deployment infrastructure for our systems.
Diagnose & troubleshoot problems with our systems in production
...and more!

Are you the right candidate?

Our multi-disciplinary team uses agile approaches and a wide range of tools and technologies on the job, so don’t worry if you haven’t experienced all of them. We’ll give you all the training you need — though we are looking for experience in some key programming languages and computing technologies. Some of them include :

SQL & NoSQL databases
Javascript
Typescript
NodeJS
ReactJS
AWS

About the BBC

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 in the document attached below.

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

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford - Quay House

• 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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.