Bbc News Jobs – Software Engineers In Newcastle upon Tyne

Overview

Position Title: Software Engineers

Company: BBC

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Job Description:

BBC Technology + Product offers a wide range of stretching, creative and impactful careers for talented people. We are the team that’s building the future of the BBC, whilst delivering TV, radio and online services to millions of people worldwide every day.

As well as being the people behind iPlayer and the News, Sports and Children’s services, we develop, support and maintain the systems and infrastructure that keeps the BBC on air and are responsible for the biggest British-run digital service in the world. In T+P, you’ll be working on unique challenges, hand in hand with the best creative minds in the UK and alongside one of the world’s leading production and distribution companies (BBC Studios).

Responsibilities:

• Building excellently engineered, high availability solutions to handle huge volumes of traffic.
• Ensuring technical quality meets the needs for a fast, reliable, always-on service.
• Championing new technologies and approaches to ensure our products remain world class.
• Collaborating effectively to deliver the best value audience experience.
• Working with others to get things done in a proactive and positive way.
• Working with journalists and designers on new application concepts and building prototypes.
• Working closely with our operational support teams to ensure our solutions our supportable, scalable and reliable.
• Contributing to an environment of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• User facing front-end products – we use modern web technologies JavaScript, React, Typescript, and Node.js, where accessibility is part of the process not an afterthought.
• APIs and back-end services – we use Node.js, Java or Scala, as well as data technologies such as Redis, SQL, NoSQL.
• Mobile – we design and maintain both hybrid and native applications using Kotlin and Swift.
• Testing – we use approaches across the pyramid, test driven development, jest and Firebase for example.
• We create and support reliable and scalable cloud based systems on Amazon Web Services, use Git and GitHub for version control, continuous integration and continuous deployment.