BBC Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer
BBC Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full time
DEPARTMENT: Recommendations
LOCATION: Newcastle: (one / two days per week in our office at Newcastle Broadcasting Centre on Barrack Road)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £58,500- £68,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the BBC Recommendations Engine team, working in one of the most exciting areas of machine learning: Recommendation Systems. We are focused on building and maintaining robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure that fuels recommendation engines. We work with other engineering and data science teams to develop cross-platform recommendations for services like iPlayer, Sounds, News, and Sport to provide truly personalized experiences, ensuring audiences quickly find desired content.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential.
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.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* Work with project, product and technical leads to design software that meets complex product and business needs, creating implementable specifications and tasks at feature and component level.
* Participate in and lead as required, the team's agile planning and delivery process.
* Participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.
* Deliver work to successful completion across the immediate team including writing appropriate tests using automated test-driven techniques for ensuring code quality and coverage.
* Integrate the software with monitoring and support tools.
* Mentor and coach more junior staff.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Expertise in Python.
* Extensive experience of developing on AWS.
* Expertise in developing for operational and non-functional concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations).
* Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
* Technical Lead on at least one medium/large sized project (3 months+).
Desired
* Experience of working on multiple projects or codebases concurrently.
* MLOps experience.
* Software engineering, computer science degree or equivalent.
* Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team.
* Platform Engineering experience.
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.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
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Employment type
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Engineering and Information Technology
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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