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Renowned and loved throughout the UK and the world, the BBC has become a household name that delivers online content to more than 25 million people globally and we are proud to say that we help make that magic happen!

Do you want to want to lead a team but still remain hands-on with the coding?

We are looking for aspiring team leads who are ready to make the transition from coding as a full time role to building a career within technical management.

You will get to retain a solid technical understanding of systems and remain close to the solutions being developed. You will have equal focus on people, processes, delivery and the governance around these.

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do.

We work in highly collaborative team of engineers, testers, UX designers and product owners.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how and when they work, with a hybrid working approach and flexibility with hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

We recognise the need to stay fresh in the ever-changing technology landscape. To support this, our engineers also receive 10% development time built into our 35 hour working week.

Our Software Engineering Team Leads are passionate about developing people and nurturing them as engineers to build great things. You will lead a team of engineers working on building the platforms and systems that power compelling products for our audience. You will be responsible for ensuring your team are engaged and performing as effectively as possible.

These roles enable you to sharpen your technical acumen and improve leadership skills and industry knowledge that are highly valued in engineering management roles – quite possibly at a pace that will surprise you.

We'll support you in using your engineering expertise to lead a multi skilled engineering team, enabling the delivery of solutions to create value, drive efficiency and increase performance for our organisation. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of products across the entire stack.

We'll show you how drive technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team, divisional and group level, as well as act as coach and mentor to your team, helping them learn and become better in their craft.

With a competitive salary, world-class in-house training and professional development on offer, this is a perfect opportunity for a senior/lead developer who is ready to take on leading a small team of engineers and progress to leadership roles in the future.

We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC and transferable skills are very welcome. We understand not everyone may tick all the essential boxes, however we strongly encourage you to apply if you can demonstrate how you would deliver the fundamentals of the role.

We’d love to hear from you if you have some of the following skills:

• Experienced senior/lead software engineer who is ready to step up and lead a team
• Passionate about creating impact through empowering others and believe in supportive and humble leadership
• Self-driven, ambitious and results focused. You chart a path for others rather than follow one
• Passionate about technology and using it as a tool to provide great audience experiences
• Committed to growing and hiring a diverse and brilliant engineering team. We invest continuously in diversity and want to foster a creative and dynamic work environment
• AWS experience
• Javascript/Web experience
• Front: React / CSS-in-JS / D3.js, Bak: GraphQL/ Node/ Express
• Data: S3 / Redis / Mongo / Elastic
• An aspiration for engineering excellence, using knowledge sharing to learn from each other

The BBC is the third most visited website in the UK, servicing 10s of millions of people each week. We reach around 95% of the UK population with our services each and every week. These services include BBC News, Sport, Childrens, Weather and our world class stream services, iPlayer and Sounds. Our services play a crucial role in the BBC’s remit to inform, educate and entertain.

BBC Product Group, where our services sit in the organisation, is responsible for our websites, platform systems and content production that enable us to deliver a world class service to the British public and beyond. We work in a functional model where all of engineering, product and delivery work together to deliver and support our services. Our values of trust, empowerment, helpfulness, learning and diversity are at the core of the BBC and are reflected in the decisions we make.

Each team within each of our areas can vary in size and scope but always comprise of highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an Agile way. Each team is made up of engineers, testers, UX designers where needed, delivery enablers and product owners. Across our engineering teams we pride ourselves on having a kind, helpful, learning based culture, where everyone can be their best. We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self improvement, learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable, guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours.

As an engineering discipline we have a focus on the following areas:

• Being the place to work - we want people in the tech industry to choose the BBC as the best place to grow, learn, create and deliver rewarding projects
• Building the best - we aim to create the very best digital products at scale
• Strong leadership - we strive to have our engineering leaders work together on our goals and build strong, open and diverse teams
• Operational excellence - we want to ensure our services are second to none in quality and reliability
• Clear technical strategy - we want to make sure that we have a clear direction and a pragmatic tech strategy that we can execute together

Application submission

One of the core values of the BBC is a commitment to diversity and inclusivity. As such, we accept CVs and answers to screening questions in written, audio and video formats.

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: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London - Hybrid Role (1-2 days in the office)

• 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.