Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
JOB REF: 33710
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Passports
LOCATION: Salford - Dock House - Hybrid with 1 day per week in Office (Office Day = Tuesday)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £44,000 - £54,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Sunday 5th of December 2025

INTERVIEWS TO COMMENCE: The week of the 15th of December 2025 this may be subject to change

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.

Interview Process:

• 1-hour technical assessment, a 15-minute break, and a 1-hour value-based interview in single session

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC Passports team, working in one of the most exciting areas of content metadata and knowledge graph: Passports. We build and maintain the next generation of metadata for improving content discovery and audience experience across BBC services. As a Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing software and providing support that meets the complex business needs, improving team's software development process, and helping deliver creative excellence that connects with global audiences.

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 develop effective software that meets complex product, and business needs according to the specifications and tasks at feature and component level.
• Participate in the team's agile planning and delivery process.
• Participate in and help improve the team's software development methodologies such as pair programming, 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.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proficient in building scalable, production-grade backend services using Typescript, adhering to SOLID principles, and deploying on AWS.
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipeline, adhering to IaC and DevOps practice.
• Experience in pair programming, TDD, and agile process.
• Collaboration within a team - ability to speak up clearly, reasoning, challenge, agree, commit and follow the practice.
• Learn new technologies and keep informed of existing technologies eagerly

DESIRED

• Understanding of microservice and serverless architectures, SPARQL, graph database and OpenSearch.
• Understanding of AWS Cloud Development Kit and GitHub Actions
• Understanding of types of tests like unit test, integration test, end-to-end test, smoke test, regression test, and load test
• Takes responsibility for delivering tasks to completion.

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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