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Job Package
• Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Unified Content Catalogue
• Department: Content & Content Metadata
• Location: Newcastle (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
• Reports to: Software Engineering Team Lead
• Band: D
• Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 (The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.)
• Closing Date for applications: Sunday 18th May 2025 at 23:59
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your preference under the flexible working question in the application. There's no obligation to raise this at the application stage, but if you wish to do so, you're 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 certifications.
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 membership. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands and is a unique and rewarding organisation to work for. We deliver content to millions of people globally every day.
The Unified Content Catalogue (UCC) team is a newly formed team working on a greenfield project responsible for designing, building, and supporting a central system to bring together much of the BBC's content and metadata. Our goal is to expose BBC content via a single, unified API, making it easier for products and platforms to deliver rich, engaging experiences to audiences.
Descriptive, well-structured, and centralised metadata allows BBC products to provide a rich, engaging and above all relevant experience to millions of audience members every day, for all sorts of BBC content, across all manner of audience products.
We're a cross-functional team and work with a varied technology stack that includes AWS cloud services, Node.js, TypeScript.
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. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career. The BBC's digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on a brand-new, high-impact project at the heart of the BBC's digital transformation.
Main Responsibilities
We're looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the Unified Content Catalogue team. You'll play a key role in building the APIs and infrastructure that unify BBC content and metadata, enabling a wide range of BBC products and services.
This is a hands-on engineering role involving both implementation and technical problem-solving. You'll work closely with engineers, architects, testers, and delivery colleagues to design and deliver high-quality, maintainable software that meets the BBC's performance, reliability, and accessibility standards.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build and deploy services using cloud technologies, especially AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, etc.).
• Work on event-driven and microservices architecture.
• Write automated tests and help maintain a healthy CI/CD pipeline.
• Contribute to the operational readiness of services, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices.
• Help ensure our systems are observable, reliable, and scalable in production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, delivery, and architecture.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and writing unit/integration tests as part of the development workflow.
• Take ownership of technical decisions, contributing to system design and coding best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
Are you the right candidate
You should have experience in some of the following:
• Backend service development in JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js
• Cloud computing with AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, ECS, EKS, etc.)
• Apply best practices such as test-driven development (TDD) to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Event driven micro-services architecture
• Building and maintaining production-ready APIs
• Working in agile, cross-discipline delivery teams
Desirable Skills and Experience
• Experience working in a multi-site or distributed team
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience supporting live systems and contributing to incident resolution
• An interest in mentoring junior engineers or sharing knowledge with peers
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here .
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .
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