Overview
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LOCATION: Glasgow – Pacific Quay | CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time | DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - Bitesize | SALARY: £75,000 - £85,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Responsibilities and Impact
The role of a Software Engineering Team Lead is a hybrid role, combining expert technical knowledge with leadership of a software engineering team and management of engineers day-to-day and their careers. You will guide engineering approaches and best practices, work with other engineering leaders, and ensure delivery of high-quality, sustainable solutions that meet user needs. You will support the Glasgow team in developing critical features and capabilities, mentor engineers, and collaborate with discipline leads and editorial stakeholders.
* People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff; assure the quality of their work and professional development.
* Environment: Create an inclusive, positive culture; collaborate with department leaders to align teams and maintain continuity across disciplines.
* Technical Expertise: Improve software, share knowledge, and enhance processes and practices across the technical community.
* User Focus: Deliver solutions that meet the needs of students, teachers and parents using the product.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
* Experience of building user-facing accessible front-end products using technologies such as React, Typescript, NodeJS.
* Experience building APIs and Back-end services using AWS technologies (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, CloudFormation).
* Ability to manage multiple product and technical priorities with practical decision making in a collaborative cross-disciplinary team.
* Experience in measuring, shaping and improving agile practices to ensure continuous delivery.
Desirable
* Experience working on large mono-repo products backed by design systems.
* Experience leading a team's approach to operational stability and incident management.
* Experience with experimentation and data-driven decision making.
Other Information
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This helps us discuss any support you may need and assess risks. Failure to disclose may result in withdrawal of offer.
Please note: The BBC will conduct Employment screening checks (Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and, where applicable, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks). Any offer is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
EEO and Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and will give priority consideration to those at risk of redundancy.
Job Function & Seniority
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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