Software Engineer (front-end leaning) in Birmingham

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Corporate Digital Applications

LOCATION: Any BBC base in the UK or UK Remote

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,000 - £50,133 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Corporate Digital & Applications (CDA) builds the BBC’s internal tools, including iPages, the system behind the BBC’s intranet and its public-facing corporate sites. You’ll be working on iPages, enhancing and crafting quality components that users love and website editors trust, empowering them to create engaging, accessible and user-friendly websites fast.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Shape the building blocks that create BBC websites, such as Media Centre, Writers or the Big Weekend. iPages is a mature product supporting around 400 sites, managed by 1000 editors. We continually enhance the components available to build sites and add new ones from time to time so editors can create the most engaging experiences for our internal and external audiences. As a detail-oriented Software Engineer in iPages, you will help shape our product and related apps by updating, developing and – at times – designing components. The components you’ll develop will not only be visually appealing, clear and fully accessible for external and internal audiences, they’ll also be user friendly for our editors. Plus, you’ll spot opportunities to make them developer friendly, too, helping with our mission of delivering value at pace. The wider CDA team we’re a part of is a friendly, flexible, start-ups style group building the internal products that keep the BBC running. Aside from iPages, these products include custom-built web apps to manage procurement, scheduling of staff, internal events, finance, and HR functions such as people management or career development. CDA are currently working on enhancing our bespoke design system to optimise the development of new apps. You’ll be the first to identify opportunities to extend these design choices to iPages, creating a more consistent language across all our tools. You’ll be shaping tools used every day across one of the world’s most iconic organisations. Working in CDA you can expect real ownership, impact, and growth. We’re a team that’s friendly, flexible, and supportive. If you are too, you’ll fit in well.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Design, develop, test, and release well-engineered code.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers.
• Work with other UX-focused software engineers in CDA to contribute to the UX/UI design of our services.
• Contribute to a culture of design and engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Participate in pair programming, code reviews, and agile delivery.
• Continuously learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies, including applying modern front-end practices and high accessibility standards.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Experience building APIs, particularly GraphQL.
• Experience with a headless CMS.
• Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud service providers.

Ready to make an impact? If you’re excited about crafting high-quality user experiences, shaping the way the BBC’s corporate sites look and growing your career in a fast-moving, supportive team then we’d love to hear from you. If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d encourage you to apply.

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 which include 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. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.

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.

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 which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract. 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, thrive and achieve their full potential. 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.

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