Software Engineer - EXTEND in London

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Video Audiences Team - Chief Operating Group

LOCATION: London (London Broadcasting House) – Hybrid (1 day per week in the office)

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,500– £54,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Tuesday the 28th of July 2026

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. Note: The team works a mostly flexible schedule – core hours are 10am – 4pm. We have one mandatory office day a week, which is currently Tuesdays but which may vary.

Interview Process

The selection process will consist of two stages:

• Stage 1: 1‑hour coding assessment designed to evaluate technical proficiency.
• Final Stage: 1‑hour comprehensive interview comprising:
• A 15‑minute technical presentation
• A 45‑minute blended competency‑based interview focused on values and behaviours and technical ability.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with project, product and technical leads to design software that meets complex product and business needs, creating implementable specifications and tasks at feature and component level.
• Enforce best practices in code quality, testing, and documentation using modern tools and frameworks (e.g. React).
• Participate in the team’s software development methodologies, such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.
• Learn new technologies and keep informed of existing technologies.

Skills and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Good understanding of TypeScript, CSS, React and Node.js.
• Experience with testing frameworks and utilities such as Mocha and Sinon.
• Experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast‑changing environment with rapid release cycles.
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure on cloud platforms and effective and resilient CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in pair programming, TDD, and agile process.

Desired

• Experience developing on AWS.
• Experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
• Out Of Hours/On Call engineer experience.
• Responsibility for delivering tasks to completion.
• Experience in a professional software development environment on several projects (including testing, design and release).

Benefits

• Fair pay and flexible benefits within a competitive salary package.
• Flexible 35‑hour working week.
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy an extra 5 days.
• Defined pension scheme.
• Discounted dental, health care and gym memberships.
• Excellent career and professional development.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.

Please note: any offer is conditional on satisfactory employment screening checks, including reference checks, eligibility to work checks, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks.