Software Engineering Team Lead

BBC; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading broadcasting corporation is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to support the Glasgow team in developing an educational product. The role involves mentoring engineers, managing technical priorities, and delivering solutions to meet user needs. Ideal candidates will have experience in front-end and back-end development using technologies like React, TypeScript, and AWS. This position offers a competitive salary with opportunities for professional development and a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Collaborative culture

Opportunities for career development

Supportive onboarding process

Qualifications

• Proven experience in mentoring and developing engineering teams.
• Experience in building user-facing products using modern web technologies.
• Expertise in back-end services and API development using AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers, ensuring quality work.
• Cultivate a positive and diverse workplace environment.
• Collaborate to improve software quality and development processes.

Skills

Mentoring and coaching engineers

Web technologies (React, TypeScript, Node.js)

AWS technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS)

Agile practices improvement

Collaborative decision making

Job description

Job Details

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group - Bitesize

LOCATION: Glasgow Pacific Quay

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 75000 - 85000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Purpose of the Role

Our Bitesize team is currently looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead to help them develop the future of their beloved education product. We are in an exciting time where we are looking to evolve Bitesize so it adapts to our user needs, delivering curriculum‑aligned content needed by students, teachers and parents to support their learning journey.

This team lead will support the Glasgow team as they develop critical features and capabilities, guiding engineers to do their best work while working closely with other discipline leads and editorial stakeholders. The role is critical to delivering high‑quality sustainable solutions that meet user needs and involves guiding engineering approaches and best practices with other engineering leaders.

Why Join the Team

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We have a collaborative and supportive culture across disciplines, proud of our values that shape how we behave daily.

There will be interesting and exciting engineering problems to solve while working on modern full‑stack infrastructure used across all BBC web estates, partnered with teams supporting BBC’s flagship brands.

We pride ourselves on helping each person develop and enhance their careers, providing learning tools and time for growth with a manager focused on leadership development.

You will shape the future of one of Britain’s most well‑known education tools and impact the lives of millions of children.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

The role combines expert technical knowledge with leading your team and managing engineers’ day‑to‑day work and careers.

The focus of the role includes:

• People: Recruit, mentor, coach and manage staff, ensuring quality of work and professional development.
• Environment: Create a workplace where people can be their best, working with department leaders to build a positive, diverse culture and aligning across teams.
• Technical Expertise: Collaborate across the technical community to improve software, share knowledge and refine development processes.
• User Focus: Deliver solutions that meet user needs, ensuring we bring products that truly serve our audience.

Your Skills and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.
• Experience building user‑facing, accessible front‑end products using web technologies such as React, TypeScript, Node.js.
• Experience building APIs and back‑end services with AWS technologies like Lambda, API Gateway, SQS and CloudFormation.
• Skilled at managing multiple product and technical priorities, making pragmatic, collaborative decisions.
• Experience measuring, shaping and improving agile practices to ensure continuous delivery.

Desirable

• Experience with large mono‑repo products backed by design systems.
• Leading a team’s approach to 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. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Employment Information

• Employment Type: Full‑Time
• Experience: years
• Vacancy: 1
• Monthly Salary: 75000 - 85000