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We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in building the next generation of our BBC News (UK and World Service), BBC Weather and BBC Learning English apps, used and loved by millions. Our welcoming and supportive team culture has grown organically from our shared values of

• High-quality, user-focused, products
• Knowledge sharing
• Continuous improvement
• Personal growth
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Accessibility
• Mentoring and coaching
• Pairing

You can expect to work in close collaboration with all the other disciplines in our team (such as Product, UX, Test and Delivery), in a highly cross-functional and autonomous environment with support and guidance from our leadership.

You will care equally as much about user value, as business value, and code quality, and you’ll appreciate the benefits of the right planning and communication to the delivery of these things.

Regardless of your target audience, you will be an effective and clear communicator, able to be a spokesperson and champion, representing your team to others in the business when needed.

• Work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to break down product requirements into technical deliverables
• Help deliver the technical implementation of product features as part of a pair/team
• Follow engineering best practices within the team
• Ensure that engineering output is fit for purpose and thoroughly tested
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the team through fast feedback loops
• Participate in knowledge sharing both within the team and more broadly

• Highly motivated to learn, develop and grow yourself and others around you
• Android experience, with understanding of app architecture and design idioms
• Proficient in Kotlin/Java
• Understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design
• Demonstrable understanding of Test-Driven Development
• Experience of source control systems such as Git
• A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments

Desirable:

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment in mobile apps
• Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Experience of building accessible applications

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 in the document attached below.

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

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London - New Broadcasting House

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of 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.