Senior AWS & Node.js Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 67,000; Full time

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Job Description

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Package Description

Job Reference: 22420
Band: D
Salary: £57,000- £67,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is Salford, MediaCityUK, Dock House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. Office attendance is required each Wednesday. Infrequent travel to the office will be required for ad-hoc TV device access, i.e. debugging live issues.
Closing Date: Thursday 24th April 2025 at 23:59

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch or listen to BBC content.

The Interactive TV teams within this department build and support the BBC's 'big screen' experiences, including iPlayer, Sounds and live events across our broadcast and connected TV platforms.

We're looking for enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers to join our cross-discipline agile team, where you'll help shape the future of TV products for millions of viewers. This role blends front-end development with elements of full-stack engineering, offering the chance to work on diverse technical challenges that drive our products forward.

Based in MediaCityUK, Salford, you'll join our Product TV team to deliver a world-class connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds. Your work will involve developing innovative application features, performing integrations across a range of TV devices, and enhancing the TV platform that powers both iPlayer and BBC Sounds. You will have an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find in the country - this is your opportunity to help define how our audiences engage with the BBC on the big screen.

The TV Build and Launch you'd be joining, interacts with and maintains a large variety of services. And has the following mission statements:

"We ensure that code developed for TVs can be performantly tested, built, transpiled and made accessible to TV devices for TV teams to be able to sustainably deliver our experiences to the TV audience.
We ensure that certified TV devices are able to access BBC TV applications with high availability and security so that our audience are able to sustainably access our content offering."

Interview Process

One stage virtual assessment centre combining a live pair programming test and an interview with our software engineering teams.

Main Responsibilities

Join a dynamic team to architect, deliver, and evolve Node.js AWS solutions addressing complex challenges that impact multiple internal teams and critical audience services. In this pivotal role, you will:

1. Design, develop, and adapt robust software solutions using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Bash, leveraging AWS services like CloudFormation, Lambdas, CloudFront, CodePipelines, CloudWatch, and EC2.
2. Lead the design and implementation of software that solves intricate business and product challenges.
3. Conduct constructive code reviews to uphold high development standards and foster team growth.
4. Deliver production-ready, high-quality code, ensuring team goals are consistently achieved.
5. Write and maintain automated tests to guarantee code coverage and quality.
6. Integrate monitoring and support tools to achieve operational excellence.
7. Ensure software reliability within its intended operating environment through robust design and testing.
8. Create, review, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to support current and future development.
9. Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product lifecycle, including participating in out-of-hours incident support when required.
10. Play an active role in agile planning, delivery processes, and retrospectives, occasionally leading these initiatives.
11. Enhance team development practices, including pair programming, code reviews, and continuous delivery.
12. Collaborate with product, design, delivery, and technical leads to design software and decompose features into implementable tasks.
13. Coordinate with third-party providers, offering guidance, support, and technical documentation.
14. Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering professional growth.
15. Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies, advocating for their adoption to benefit the team.

Are you the right candidate

We're seeking a motivated and skilled Technical Lead who thrives in fast-paced environments with rapid release cycles. The ideal candidate should have:

1. Proven expertise in architecting and delivering complex Node.js projects using AWS infrastructure-as-code.
2. In-depth knowledge of AWS technologies, including CloudFormation, Lambdas, CloudFront, CodePipelines, CloudWatch, and EC2.
3. Strong experience with test-driven development and a deep understanding of testing and QA practices.
4. Expertise in addressing operational concerns such as monitoring, performance testing, scaling, availability, resilience, and security.
5. Hands-on experience in professional software development environments with established processes and best practices.
6. Proficiency in translating product requirements into scalable and robust technical solutions.
7. A track record of quickly learning about and contributing to complex, preexisting software solutions that provide critical functionality to end-users.
8. Solid application and understanding of design patterns in software development.
9. Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders and engineers, with the ability to articulate technical decisions and teach others.
10. A history of delivering high-quality work to completion as part of a team.
11. Experience leading medium to large projects (3+ months) and familiarity with agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.
12. A demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior team members, cultivating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
13. Full-stack development experience, including backend services and APIs.
14. Thorough knowledge of web architecture, including HTTP, DNS, and distributed systems design.
15. Excellent decision-making skills to balance delivering technical excellence with providing audience value within a multidisciplinary organisation.
16. Experience leading and showing proactive influence in teams and projects.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background, socio-economic background, and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about working at the BBC, please click here.