Software Engineer - TV Apps in Salford

Location: Salford, MediaCity Dock House – Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: TV & Devices Experience, Product Group

Proposed Salary Range: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

We are happy to discuss flexible working. If you would like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there is no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the Role

A crucial part of BBC’s strategy is migrating our audience from linear TV into iPlayer & Sounds. The products our team own focus on exactly this, offering easy and enticing journeys from linear TV into digital content. We work across many TV platforms including Sky Q, Sky Glass/Stream, Freeview, Freely and Virgin Media to provide Red and Green Button journeys either direct into relevant iPlayer/Sounds content or to view promoted content available.

Why Join the Team

Our products are underpinned by a technically diverse architecture, blending the latest cloud services and well-established broadcast engineering. We are increasingly using multi variant testing to ensure we develop new features and enhancements that the audience love and engage with. We offer a unique opportunity to use and develop a broad range of technical skills within a supportive, high performing team.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Be accountable for the development of effective software that meets given complex, strategic business needs for immediate team and broader BBC.
• Review and give constructive feedback on others’ code.
• Troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the team’s delivery and development processes.
• Mentor more junior software engineering team members.
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies, and help introduce them where appropriate.

Your Skills and Experience

Desired but not Required:

• Experience of Agile development methodologies.
• Use of MS Copilot or similar in development.
• Understanding of the principles of Multi Variant Testing.
• Experience of Broadcast technologies/platforms such as HbbTV and DVB (advantageous but not essential).

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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 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.

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.

Life at BBC

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.