Software engineer - Extend

Closing date: 2nd January 2025

Salary: Up to £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. If you are based in London, London Weighting will be added on top of the base salary (£5319)

Be at the forefront of data platform technology, enabling insights across BBC Studios.

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

Our Data Platform Team plays a pivotal role in empowering the wider business with the data and infrastructure tools needed to drive innovation, insights, and storytelling through data. We build and maintain the foundational technology stack that underpins our data products, ensuring that teams across BBC Studios can easily and securely access the information they need.

As a Data Platform Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the core data infrastructure at BBC Studios. Working closely with other members of the Data Platform Squad, you will create automated and scalable solutions that enable data engineers, analysts, and product teams to seamlessly access and process large volumes of data. This is a hands-on engineering role that involves leveraging a variety of modern technologies and best practices.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential 

• Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS (e.g S3,IAM, Lambdas, RDS)
• Demonstrable proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code Principles.
• Solid experience developing backend services using Node.js (Typescript)
• Proven knowledge of SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts.
• Experience with building React apps.

 Desirable

• Exposure to other programming languages (e.g., Python) for data tooling and Automation.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Snowflake.
•  Understanding of data governance, security and compliance standards.

What you will gain from working at BBC Studios?

• We offer a competitive salary package.
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance.
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid.
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days.
•  A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
•  A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neuro divergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.