Junior Software Engineer

Package Description

Job Reference: 16054 Band: C

Salary:  £29,500 - £39,500 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 - Hybrid

Location: London News Broadcasting House 

Job Closing Date:  30.08.24

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

This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of the world's leading news and media organisations.  

The role will be within BBC News Design as a Junior Software Engineer, a key member of a vibrant design development team on English and non-English language Broadcast & video platforms innovating new, bespoke solutions while maintaining and improving existing systems.

A Junior Broadcast Software Engineers makes News graphics that function in real time, from standard on-screen graphics, to data visualisation, Touchscreens, studio screens, election results, data fed AR & VR 3D graphics and everything else that BBC News Design requires on its output.

Main Responsibilities

• Creating journalist controlled templated graphics according to a design brief.To have creative input on complex projects.

• Deliver projects in a fast paced News environment to tight deadlines.

• Develop effective software that meets given specifications with review and mentoring by others in the team.

• Help to troubleshoot and resolve issues 

• Review and give feedback on others’ code

• Participate in the team’s software development methodologies such as code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.

• Learn new technologies and keep informed of existing technologies.

• Write and review technical documentation.

Are you the right person?

• Keen interest in News & Current Affairs

• Knowledge or experience of writing and maintaining robust production software.

• Knowledge or experience of building bespoke graphics from data sources.

• Competence in one or more mainstream development languages and frameworks.

• Knowledge or experience of building bespoke graphics from data sources.

• Works well with Designers to create data graphics.

• Knowledge of the web architecture and key technologies, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Vue & Nuxt.

• Knowledge of AWS & other Cloud storage solutions. 

• Competence in test driven development and broader testing,

• Competence in developing for operational concerns 

• Knowledge or experience of project working and professional software development processes.

• The Design development group is first and foremost a team you will need the ability to speak up, challenge, agree and commit.  

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.

Diversity matters at the BBC. 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 age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.