JOB DETAILS

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer 
JOB REF: 33710
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Passports
LOCATION: Salford - Dock House - Hybrid with 1 day per week in Office (Office Day = Tuesday) 
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £44,000 - £54,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Sunday 5th of December 2025

INTERVIEWS TO COMMENCE: The week of the 15th of December 2025*this may be subject to change

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.

Interview Process:

• 1-hour technical assessment, a 15-minute break, and a 1-hour value-based interview in single session 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC Passports team, working in one of the most exciting areas of content metadata and knowledge graph: Passports. We build and maintain the next generation of metadata for improving content discovery and audience experience across BBC services. As a Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in developing software and providing support that meets the complex business needs, improving team’s software development process, and helping deliver creative excellence that connects with global audiences.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential. We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed.  We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day.  We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive.  We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

1. Work with project, product and technical leads to develop effective software that meets complex product, and business needs according to the specifications and tasks at feature and component level.

1. Participate in the team's agile planning and delivery process.
2. Participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies such as pair programming, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.
3. Deliver work to successful completion across the immediate team including writing appropriate tests using automated test-driven techniques for ensuring code quality and coverage.
4. Integrate the software with monitoring and support tools.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proficient in building scalable, production-grade backend services using Typescript, adhering to SOLID principles, and deploying on AWS. 
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipeline, adhering to IaC and DevOps practice. 
• Experience in pair programming, TDD, and agile process. 
• Collaboration within a team – ability to speak up clearly, reasoning, challenge, agree, commit and follow the practice. 
• Learn new technologies and keep informed of existing technologies eagerly 

 
DESIRED 

• Understanding of microservice and serverless architectures, SPARQL, graph database and OpenSearch.
• Understanding of AWS Cloud Development Kit and GitHub Actions
• Understanding of types of tests like unit test, integration test, end-to-end test, smoke test, regression test, and load test
• Takes responsibility for delivering tasks to completion.

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.