BBC is hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead for Full Stack Role.
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About Software Engineer at BBC
We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best, so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale.
Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience of engineering systems? Are you passionate about helping engineering teams do their best work? Do you care deeply about engineering principles, and the craft of Software Engineering? Would you like to work on websites and services that are used by millions of people each day?
If so, this opportunity could be for you.
We are currently looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead for our Telescope team. The Telescope team are a full-stack team that deliver near real-time insights to our editorial colleagues, so they can make data informed decisions. Their work helps support the mission of the BBC to ensure we are keeping everyone informed about world events. Telescope is used in Newsrooms around the world, every day. This team is a cross-discipline team, who are building not only the front-end experiences used by editorial staff, but also building the infrastructure and data products required. They are part of a wider group of teams working on data insight tooling in our Data Platform department whose mission is to help ensure everyone at the BBC is able to make data informed decisions that benefit our audiences.
Job Role:
Band: D
Salary Range: £65,000 – £85,000
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London – Hybrid Role (1-2 days in the office)
Software Engineer Benefits:
- An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
- 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
- Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
- Employee assistance and well-being programmes
- Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
- Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
Interview process at BBC for Software Engineer:
This role would require a virtual 2hr interview which will be made up of:
- 30-minute Technical presentation and discussion.
- 10 minute break
- 1hr 10 min Competency Interview
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Software Engineer Responsibility at BBC:
Main Responsibilities
This is a hybrid role, mixing expert technical knowledge with setting the direction for your team, managing your engineers day to day and supporting their careers.
The focus of the role includes:
• People:
○ Recruiting people into your team to ensure you have a healthy, balanced, diverse, team.
○ Supporting the growth, progression, and performance of your team.
○ Creating a healthy team environment where everyone can bring their best, feel motivated by, and connected to, our mission.
• Culture:
○ Collaborate closely with delivery, product and UX leads to ensure the team is working in the most effective way possible, on the things that add the most value.
○ Creating a positive working relationship between your team and others within the BBC.
○ Ensuring alignment to key objectives and missions within your team.
○ Ensuring your team is following agile best practices and processes.
○ Promoting a culture of sharing, learning and good communication.
○ Finding ways to motivate your team and celebrating their successes.
• Technical:
○ Lead your team in the design, development and operation of effective software that meets complex requirements for the immediate team and broader BBC.
○ Work with other technical leaders in the broader organisation to define, document and distribute best practice and standards.
○ Helping ensure the team has the right processes, practices, and tools in place to help them deliver high quality software at scale.
○ Leading your team in defining your approaches to operational stability, quality, and testing.
○ Creating a culture of Engineering Excellence within your team.
○ Helping your team respond to live issues and incidents and leading the process of learning from them.
○ Ensure that the team’s technical product documentation is always complete, accurate and coherent.
Skills Required to be Software Engineer At BBC:
Experience of leadership
- Experienced Team Lead with experience of supporting Software Engineering teams.
- Recruitment, line management and mentoring experience.
- The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders.
- Establishing and promoting best practices within teams.
- Committed to growing and hiring a diverse engineering team.
Technical Stack & Experience
- Hands-on experience of Web development Technologies: React /Typescript/Javascript / JSX / Cypress /Node / NextJS
- Experience of AWS Technologies, such as: S3 / Redis / Mongo / Elastic / ECS / SQS/ SNS or similar