Software Engineers: Android & iOS: iPlayer Mobile Salford, North West England, England
Job description
We are looking for Software Engineers to join the iPlayer Mobile team.
BBC iPlayer is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands, and we’re looking
for passionate team members to join our collaborative, cross-discipline, agile teams.
We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability,
sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.
As a Software Engineer for the iPlayer Mobile team, you will have the opportunity to
join an engineering team that delivers an intuitive and engaging streaming
experience to millions of audience members every day.
To be successful in this role you will need a good understanding of object-oriented
programming, clean architecture, and test-driven development. We usually work in
Kotlin/Java (Android), and Swift/Objective-C (iOS) so experience with these
languages and the mobile ecosystem is valuable.
We are a small, self-organising and highly collaborative team of engineers, testers,
UX designers, technical architects and product owners. We value our engineers,
offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as ‘10% time’ -
allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the
time to reflect and improve on how we’re working via team retrospectives and
mentoring. We’re a hard-working team who are supportive, care about each other,
and promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours
and a friendly working environment.
You will have a real opportunity to influence the future of BBC iPlayer, and make it
the indispensable video destination for all of the UK public.
- 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 across iPlayer more broadly
- Highly motivated to learn, develop and grow yourself and others around you
- Android or iOS experience, with understanding of app architecture and design idioms
- Proficient in Kotlin/Java or Swift/Objective-C
- 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
Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford
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.
