Software Engineering Team Lead

Overview

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - Bitesize
LOCATION: Glasgow - Pacific Quay
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £75,000 - £85,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Our Bitesize team is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to help develop the future of the education product. You will guide engineers, support their career aspirations, and collaborate with discipline leads and editorial stakeholders to deliver high-quality, sustainable solutions that meet user needs.

Responsibilities

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, ensuring quality of work and professional development.
• Environment: Create a positive, diverse working culture and align across teams with department leaders and peers.
• Technical Expertise: Work across the technical community to improve software, share knowledge and enhance processes.
• User Focus: Deliver solutions that meet the needs of users.

Your Skills and Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Track record of growing engineers with mentoring, coaching and development.
• Experience building user-facing accessible front-end products using React, TypeScript, NodeJS.
• Experience building APIs and back-end services using AWS technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, CloudFormation).
• Ability to manage multiple product and technical priorities with practical decision making in a collaborative cross-disciplinary team.
• Experience measuring, shaping and improving agile practices to achieve continuous delivery.

DESIRED

• Experience working on large mono-repo products backed by design systems.
• Leadership of operational stability and incident management.
• Experience with experimentation and data-driven decision making.

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 describes the essential characteristics of the role and principal accountabilities. It is not a complete detailing of all duties involved. Employment screening checks (references, eligibility to work, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks where applicable) will be conducted if you are offered the role. Any offer is conditional on satisfactory checks.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment with priority consideration ahead of external applicants where applicable.

Note: Some information in the original description (e.g., provider sections, unrelated product data, and web page copy) has been removed to focus on the responsibilities and qualifications of this role.