Package Description

Job Requisition: 22868

Band: C

Salary: Up to £39,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Office Base is Pacific Quay, Glasgow. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here .

Job Introduction

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you will be part of a team who are shaping the future of Audio at the BBC?

If you value being given the time, support and training to grow your technical and interpersonal skills, we have the role for you.

The Content and Content Metadata area in BBC Sounds are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to join the Common Catalogue team.

As the Common Catalogue team, we develop and continuously improve a single source of metadata that powers the Sounds product and enables integrations with internal and external partners.

We value our engineers and offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as ‘10% time’ allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.

We are a collaborative and supportive team who care about each other and promote a healthy work-life balance through hybrid working.

Interview process

• Technical pair programming task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour
• Virtual interview on MS Teams – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions
  
  

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers in the team to develop, enhance and maintain code within the Common Catalogue repository
• Participate in code reviews
• Assist in the deployment of code changes to the Dev and Live environments
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging any issues that may arise
  
  

Are you the right candidate

• Proficiency in a programming language, preferably JavaScript or Typescript
• Experience developing in the cloud, preferably on AWS
• Experience with unit testing
• Working knowledge of CI/CD and other DevOps principles and practices
• Understanding of operational practices, such as monitoring/observability
• Strong communication and Collaboration skills
• Curiosity and an appetite to learn
  
  

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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 here .

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 .