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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Account and Identity
LOCATION: Salford/London Hybrid(1 day per week in the office)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £63,000 - £73,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Audience Platform is responsible for the platform systems at the centre of the BBC's aim to make a personalised BBC Online for everyone. We create components, systems and services that enable people's experience of BBC Online to be tailored by their activities and interactions; everything from content recommendations in iPlayer, to enabling people to comment on BBC News articles. Our services enable and underpin offerings from the BBC's major brands including iPlayer, Sounds, BBC News, Sport, Bitesize and so much more; giving our services unparalleled reach. We've already enabled over ~50m people to create and use their BBC account every month, and have big ambitions to grow the product to reach hundreds of millions of people and help them get more out of the BBC.
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 in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career. Our welcoming, supportive and hybrid working culture has grown organically from our shared values of high-quality user-focused products, collaborative knowledge sharing, accessibility, mentoring and coaching, pairing, flexibility, continuous improvement, personal growth, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Our team uses the latest technologies, inspires innovation and has autonomy. We are highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an agile way. You will be working on great projects, and you will be surrounded by a team of like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow. This is an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional with our goal of taking the BBC on the journey to be a digital-first organisation.
We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable, guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the BBC Account team, you will develop libraries and services that provide authorisation, authentication and personalisation capabilities. As a key member of this dynamic team you will be responsible for
Analysing and solving complex problems to deliver innovative products to our clients and users.
Developing high-quality code, tests, documentation and scripts; ensuring they are understandable, maintainable and minimise risk.
Participate in the team's software development methodologies, such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery. Learning about new technologies and techniques and assess their applicability and usefulness to our products and our clients.
Help troubleshoot and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution.
Participate in the team's agile planning and delivery process.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
Production experience in TypeScript or JavaScript.
Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services. Including experience with AWS; CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, WAF, ALB.
An understanding of HTTP and experience with RESTful APIs.
Experience communicating complex technical ideas in formal and informal settings to team members with a range of technical understanding.
Working knowledge of Customer Identity and Authentication Management (CIAM) standards, such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED
Experience mitigating non-functional and operational concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, availability and resilience, security considerations).
Experience working on zero down time systems and providing live support in the event of service disruption.
Production experience in Java.
Demonstrable experience with test-driven development.
Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team.
Expertise in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and CodePipeline).
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.