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JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group, Content & Content Metadata
LOCATION: Salford Dock House 1 day a week Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £57,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact extend@bbc.co.uk.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage. EX2324
The BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer product teams build some of the BBC’s most used and valued products. Our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch BBC content. The iPlayer Catalogue (Video Content Catalogue) team is responsible for creating and maintaining content catalogues that powers consistent experience across the iPlayer product and partner platforms.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is a great opportunity to join an inclusive high-performing team at the heart of one of the BBC’s highest profile digital products. You’ll be building high performance, scalable applications in a collaborative and supportive environment, with plenty of opportunities for learning and development.
The BBC Engineering community is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.
• Building excellently engineered, highly available solutions using agile development practices.
• Contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaborating effectively to deliver the best value audience experience.
• Working in a DevOps model including solving operational issues and providing out-of-hours support.
• Sharing knowledge, learning new skills and adapting to change.
Essential Criteria:
• Expertise designing, building and supporting modern Cloud based applications using Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS and AWS
• Expertise in Cloud architecture and key technologies (CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB)
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pair Programming, TDD)
• Proven track record of building software solutions with consideration to non-functional requirements.
• Developing software with scale, security and reliability in mind.
Desired:
• Experience developing systems using microservices architecture
• Experience developing systems using event driven architecture
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.
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