Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Job Reference: 23351

Band: D

Salary: £60,000 to £69,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Office Base is Newcastle, This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working (office day is Wednesday)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.  

Job Introduction

BBC Audiences are here to ensure we bring enough value to all Licence Fee paying households. We are a team filled with data analysts, researchers, planners, and marketing/data scientists. We use data, insight and market knowledge to put audiences at the heart of all creative and strategic decision-making. Simply put, we are the ‘Voice of the Audience’ for the BBC.

This role is within one of our data platform teams, within insight tooling. The data platform area brings together a collection of self-services capabilities to enable the BBC to make best of use of its data for analytical purposes. Insight tooling focuses on providing solutions for internal users enabling them to make data driven decisions.

This role is in our Audiences portal team. The audience portal is used by both internal external users, which provides quantitative data and qualitative research data for over 2000 users.

Main Responsibilities

• Take a structured and professional approach to engineering, ensuring high-quality development. 
• Actively participate in pair programming sessions, working closely with other engineers to write maintainable and efficient code 
• Drive the ambition to build an outstanding engineering team and culture. 
• Conduct code reviews, maintain coding standards, and guidelines. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement requirements. 
• Participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery. 
• Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation. 
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle 
• Mentor and coach more junior staff.  Provide technical leadership and direction colleagues. 
• Expertise in developing for operational and non-functional concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations). 

Are you the right candidate

• Experience with the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance 
• Experience of JavaScript, Typescript, Node JS and REACT 
• Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns and best practices 
• Experience of AWS Services such as S3, EC2, Lambda, SNS, RDS, Elasticsearch and ELB 
• Experience of PostgreSQL 
• Competence in database design and use of software applications.