Hackajob Salford, England, United Kingdom
Software Engineering Team Lead
Job Details
* Job Band: E
* Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
* Department: BBC Product Group - TV and Devices
* Location: Salford - Dock House
* Proposed Salary Range: £72,000 – £82,000 (based on relevant skills, knowledge and experience)
* Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior
* Job Function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industry: Software Development
Purpose of the Role
IPTV is the centre of the BBC's strategic ambitions, with the iPlayer audience on this platform reaching over 13 million users a week. While impressive, this figure pales compared to the potential IPTV audience; many more users still turn to broadcast TV to consume BBC content, and a key challenge is enticing them over to our IP products. The TV Enablement team needs a talented Software Engineering Team Lead to forge a path in this developing area. The team looks after critical infrastructure and tooling that provide the beating heart for all TV development, ensuring teams can quickly and safely deploy their features to production. We are at the start of our journey, offering many opportunities to explore and different directions we could take—blue‑green deployments, automatic rollbacks, device‑specific monitoring, expanded operational controls, and more.
Why Join the Team
We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people’s lives. You would be in the leadership team forming the strategy and driving it for the whole platform—a big responsibility that sets a high bar. Our mission is to provide world‑class TV experiences leaning into the BBC’s unique strengths, competing with the biggest players. TV is an especially challenging platform given its fragmented nature, but we pull together as a strong TV community and drive forward through collaboration and supporting each other.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role; it mixes expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineers day‑to‑day and their careers.
Focus Of The Role Includes
* People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, ensuring the quality of their work and professional development.
* Environment: Create the environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with department leaders to create a positive and diverse culture and with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
* Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes/practices when developing software.
Your Skills and Experience
* Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
* Experience designing, writing and supporting robust, large‑scale applications in a fast‑changing environment with rapid release cycles.
* Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences.
* Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision‑making.
* In‑depth AWS knowledge, particularly in building infrastructure to support CI/CD and highly available edge distribution.
Desired
* Experience managing multiple technical and non‑technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment.
* Experience creating and managing large complex mono‑repos.
* Experience working in the TV domain.
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