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We’re looking for talented software engineers to join the iPlayer & Sounds department, working on the Radio and Music Services team in London. Our team builds and maintains the APIs and associated AWS infrastructure that power BBC Sounds on Web, Mobile, Voice and TV, as well as other emerging platforms in the Radio and Music space.

We develop and manage all the code and infrastructure needed to power BBC Sounds from the AWS account level up, serving upwards of 7,000RPS at busy times of day. We use CloudFormation to manage infrastructure, Scala to develop our APIs, and Java Lambdas to manage our data ingest. All of this fits together in a microservices architecture. We work in an agile fashion shipping incrementally and often.

We work closely with our client teams and editorial in BBC Radio, and as part of the broader product group, share practice and knowledge with our equivalent teams in iPlayer. The BBC Engineering community as a whole is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. Our Engineers are all encouraged to do 10% time, which typically takes the form of a hackday every two weeks where they can work on pet projects and personal development.

This is a great opportunity to join a high-performing team at the heart of one of the BBC’s highest profile digital products, delivering features to over 4.5 million weekly active users. You’ll learn how to build performant and accessible applications in a collaborative and supportive environment, with plenty of opportunities for learning and development.

During your time here you will:

• Improve the personalised experience for the BBC Sounds audience
• Help to improve and scale our AWS based infrastructure
• Help monitor performance of new functionality and offer ideas on how it could be improved
• Improve our event driven data ingest pipelines using AWS Lambda
• Collaborate with product and delivery managers on solving user problems, advising on the complexities of proposed work and assisting in the planning stages of projects.
• Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate

Essential

• Experience of building or maintaining infrastructure on cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience with a backend programming language. We mainly use Scala.
• Familiarity with version control systems (We use Git)
• Experience of writing unit tests and TDD
• Enthusiasm for working with other teams and disciplines, and creating an inclusive and supportive environment for everyone to work in

Desirable

• Experience developing complex AWS infrastructure
• Familiarity with JVM languages generally
• Experience working on HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with a devops environment
• Experience of project and issue tracking tools (we use Jira)
• Love of Music, Radio & Podcasts.

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.