Senior Software Engineer

hackajob; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading tech company in Newcastle as a Senior Software Engineer, collaborating with the BBC. This hybrid role offers excellent career progression, unrivalled training, and the chance to work on high-scale systems with innovative technologies. Embrace a culture that encourages creativity and personal development, while being part of a team dedicated to delivering impactful solutions.

Benefits

Flexible 35-hour working week

25 days annual leave with option to buy additional days

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and healthcare

Access to in-house training and development

Qualifications

• Demonstrable backend experience in development.
• Experience with Node and AWS is essential.
• Strong back-end web development skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design new features and products.
• Ensure high quality code is delivered.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Node

AWS

JavaScript

Job description

hackajob Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Senior Software Engineer

hackajob Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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hackajob is collaborating with BBC to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Senior Software Engineer - Newcastle

Package Description

Job Reference: 13904

Band: D

Salary Range: £55,000 - £65,000 (salary depends on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.)

Contract type: Permanent/continuing

Location: Newcastle (hybrid working) This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

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.

Job Introduction

Step into the world of the BBC, one of the UK's most iconic and beloved brands, where every working day is as unique as it is rewarding. Every tick of the clock, our content reaches millions of people globally, which is made possible by our top-notch Software Engineering team. They've been instrumental in pioneering innovative products and unique features that have firmly positioned us at the forefront of our industry. We don't merely adapt to an ever-changing world - we set the pace.

We are growing our engineering hub of excellence and looking for Senior Software Engineers with demonstrable backend experience to join our teams in Newcastle. You will have experience with Node and AWS.

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.

Our engineers receive 10% development time built into the 35 hour working week. We want to give you the time and space to stay fresh in the ever-changing technology landscape.

Come work on fantastically high-scale systems with us!

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Main Responsibilities

Software engineers at the BBC are more than just programmers - we’re people who are builders, designers, and problem solvers at heart, people with a passion to make things better for our audiences. You will help innovate and design new features and products, work with the team to build them, and support and grow them after they’re live.

As a developer in our teams, you will ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. You will thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on several projects.

You will be a hands-on senior backend developer with experience taking ownership of projects, code, database architecture, and scalability.

You will work with principal engineers and team leaders and help mentor juniors in the team, promoting technical standards. Pairing on all aspects of the development process, you will deliver secure, reliable and scalable software within your team.

There’s a lot of scope for widening your skills in this role because it allows you to move into different areas, cover lots of ground and really broaden your understanding of how the business works. When you want to take the next step up, a principal engineer or team lead role would help you build on everything that you’ve already learned and achieved.

Your day will be exciting and diverse. You won’t only ship code; you’ll be intimately involved with all stages of developing the product, predominately focusing on the backend.

Some Practices We Like

• Pair-programming. We like knowledge sharing and learning from one another
• Shipping great products, not just writing superb code
• Hybrid work environment. We balance working from home with in-person collaboration.
• Global view. We work with peers in different geo-locations
• Mentoring and coaching. We care about each other
• Tapping into our creativity and learning. You get 10% development time every week to invest in your own learning and development
• Continuous deployment
• Working in an Agile environment with strong attention to a well-documented code, unit testing and continuous integration
• Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency and performance
  
  

Are you the right candidate?

We’re looking for senior software engineers who are passionate about code, curious and eager to learn in a team of engineering excellence.

The programming language skills we are hiring for currently: JavaScript/API's (backend) and AWS knowledge.

Some Of The Things We Love

• Strong back-end web development skills, particularly with Node
• Experience with the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance
• Developing on cloud based environments like AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of writing automated tests and taking a TDD approach to your work
• An aspiration for engineering excellence, using knowledge sharing to learn from each other
  
  

The Selection Process

We run virtual assessment centres on Thursday mornings for shortlisted candidates. There are two elements:

• Live pair programming exercise with two of our software engineers, you will get the live pair programming exercise in advance of your assessment centre date
• Blended interview questions with two of our software engineers

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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