Software Engineer (Full‑stack) – Join Corporate Digital Applications (CDA) to develop internal tools and services for BBC colleagues using React, GraphQL, and AWS. Your role will shape products, technical approach, and guide others.
Key Responsibilities and Impact
* Collaborate effectively to design, develop, test, and release well‑engineered code
* Work closely with the CDA product team
* Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
* Participate in the teams software development methodologies, including pairing, code reviews, agile planning and continuous delivery
* Write automated tests to ensure code quality
* Help troubleshoot and resolve issues
* Learn new technologies and keep up to date with existing ones
Essential Criteria
* A demonstrable passion for web development
* Significant experience with technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, ideally with React
* Some understanding of web accessibility standards
* Experience building and consuming APIs, ideally in Node.js
* Experience working with relational databases
* Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills
Desired Criteria
* Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud service providers
* Experience working with GraphQL APIs
* Experience maintaining and optimising relational databases
* Experience with a headless CMS
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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.
J-18808-Ljbffr