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JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – WebCore Platform
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time
DEPARTMENT: Chief Operating Group
LOCATION: Salford Dock House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £54,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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.
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
BBC Web Enable manages WebCore, the backbone of BBC’s digital products—including HomePages, News, and Sport. Our mission is to deliver robust, high-performance platforms that enable product teams to build and deploy at scale. We invest in automation, observability, and platform reliability, ensuring seamless content delivery and an outstanding developer experience.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Now is an exciting time in Web Enable and WebCore Platform, with migrations, observability initiatives and collaboration at the heart of most of our work. We require a Software Engineer with a will to succeed and a want to progress in a fast-paced environment working closely with backend and frontend engineers alike. You will only be held back by your own imagination and knowledge, learn as you go and press forward to enhance the products and services that enable News, Sport, Children’s and the incoming iPlayer and Sounds to help put their content in front of millions of people daily. You will work with new and industry standard technologies, you will build for the future, and you can expand your knowledge and experience by experimenting and pushing your experience.
• AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) – Engineer and manage cloud-native platform components, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
• AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) – Automation of resource provisioning and management for consistency and repeatability.
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild) – Manage and implement automated pipelines, enabling frictionless deployment and rapid iteration.
• Observability & Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, InfluxDB) – Implement and maintain platform-wide monitoring, alerting, and logging for reliability and incident response.
• Developer Experience – Continuously improve platform tooling, documentation, and automation to empower product teams and reduce cognitive load.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
• Experience with coding, ideally in Typescript / Javascript.
• Experience managing infrastructure with AWS, or a similar cloud services.
• Experience of coordinating work in an agile team setting.
• Desire to learn new software skills and work with new technologies.
• The ability to lead initiative or tasks within a multi-disciplinary team.
DESIRED:
• Familiarity with event-driven systems.
• Knowledge of databases and data modelling.
• Understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design principles.
• Experience with frameworks like React or Next.js.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
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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