Senior Software Engineer in Test

London, GBR, W1A 1AA
Salford, GBR, M50 2QH

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent.
DEPARTMENT: Authoring & Curation
LOCATION: London/Salford - Hybrid 1-2 days per week in-office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: salary: £55,000-£65,000 dependent on skills, knowledge and experience.

This is a hybrid role, offering a balance between office and home working. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. If you wish, please indicate your preference in your application, though there's no obligation to do so at this stage. Flexible working will be part of the discussion during the offer process.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are a friendly and supportive team, and we love that we get to work on interesting and important problems that have a real impact on the audience's experience and the future of the BBC. The BBC has an industry-leading engineering culture with a strong focus on best practice and a wide range of opportunities for learning and career growth. Diverse representation of people within the team is vital, and we work in an open, supportive and inclusive manner. We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career

The BBC's digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an excellent opportunity to join a technically strong, collaborative team at the heart of the BBC's content delivery. The Content Metadata team builds the systems that power rich, scalable metadata across BBC Sounds, iPlayer, News, Sport, and more, helping audiences discover relevant and engaging content.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

DESIRED:

• Experience testing in microservices and event-driven architectures, with familiarity in messaging platforms such as Kafka, SNS, or SQS.
• Strong understanding of observability tools and techniques, including logging, distributed tracing, and metrics, to support efficient debugging and performance tuning.
• Experience working with load and performance testing.
• Experience of working with processes to improve code quality, such as pair programming and code reviews.
• Experience of working in a team with dev-ops responsibilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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