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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - Bitesize
LOCATION: Glasgow - Pacific Quay
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £75,000 - £85,000 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
Our Bitesize team is currently looking for a Software Engineering Team lead to help them develop the future of their beloved education product. We are in an exciting time where we are looking to evolve Bitesize, so it adapts to our user needs. Making sure we are delivering the curriculum aligned content needed by students, teachers and parents to support them in their learning journey.
This team lead will be supporting our Glasgow team as they develop some of these critical features and capabilities. Guiding engineers to do their best work, supporting their career aspirations, while also working closely with other discipline leads and our editorial stakeholders. The team lead is critical to making sure we are delivering high-quality, sustainable, solutions to meet our user needs. It will involve guiding engineering approaches and best practices with other engineering leaders to ensure we are meeting our high expectations on engineering quality.
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 have fostered a collaborative and supportive culture not just within engineering, but across disciplines, teams and areas. 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.
There will be interesting and exciting engineering problems for you to solve with your team, while working on top of a modern full-stack infrastructure that is utilised across all the BBC's web estate. You will be working in partnership with the teams that support all the BBC's other flagship brands.
We pride ourselves on the support we give each person in our teams to develop themselves and enhance their careers. You will have a range of learning tools and time available to you, and a manager who is focused on helping to develop you as a leader.
You will be able to shape the future of one of Britain's most well-known education tools and will have an impact on the lives of millions of children with your work.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role, mixing expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing your engineers day to day and their careers.
The focus of the role includes:
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People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, assuring the quality of their work and professional development.
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Environment: Create the environment in which people can be their best. This will involve working with department leaders to create a positive and diverse working culture and working with peers to create continuity and alignment across the teams.
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Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve our software, share knowledge and improve processes / practices when developing software.
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User Focus: Delivering solutions for our users is paramount for us, and as a Software Engineering Team Lead you will be key to making sure we are bringing solutions that meet the needs of the people we serve.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
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Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development
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Experience of building user-facing
accessible front-end products using web technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS.
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Experience of working with and building APIs and Back-end services using a range of AWS technologies like: Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Cloud Formation.
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Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision making in a collaborative cross discipline team.
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Experience of measuring, shaping and improving agile practices in a software development team to ensure continuous delivery is achieved.
DESIRED:
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Experience of working on large mono-repo products backed by design systems.
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Leading a team's approach on operational stability and incident management.
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Experience of experimentation and data-driven decision making.
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.