Responsible for the design of software, and for implementation and operation of effective software and tools.

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1 Job title Job family Senior Software Engineer Technology, Systems & Delivery Proposed band D Job purpose Responsible for the design of software, and for implementation and operation of effective software and tools. Key responsibilities and accountabilities Lead the design and development of effective software that meets complex product and business needs Review and give constructive feedback on others code Drive work to successful completion across the immediate team Write appropriate tests using automated test driven techniques for ensuring code quality and coverage Integrate the software with monitoring and support tools Ensure the teams software works in its operating environment Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation Lead troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution Participate in and lead as required, the team's agile planning and delivery process Effectively participate in and help improve the teams software development methodologies, such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing and continuous delivery Work with project, product and technical leads to design software and create implementable specifications and tasks at feature and component level Work with 3rd Party ("Indies") where necessary offering direction, support and documentation Mentor and coach more junior staff. Provide technical leadership and direction to peers and colleagues. Line Management of 1-2 software engineers (if appropriate) Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate Knowledge, skills, training and experience Essential Extensive experience writing and maintaining large scale robust production software in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles Expertise in one or more mainstream development language/frameworks Expertise with one or more mainstream development and deployment tool chains (IDE, SCCS, CI) Competence in database design and use in software applications Expertise in web architecture and key technologies (HTTP, DNS, distributed design) Expertise in test driven development and broader testing and QA concerns Expertise in developing for operational and non functional concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations) Extensive experience of project working and professional software development processes, including agile Page 1 of 5

2 Competence in translating product requirements into technical solutions Demonstrable experience in using design patterns Effective leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence diverse stakeholders effectively Takes responsibility for driving work to completion across the team Technical Lead on at least 1 Medium/Large sized project (3 months +) Desirable Worked on multiple projects or codebases concurrently Software Engineering or computer science degree or equivalent Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team Job impact Decision making Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation Collaborating with stakeholders and product managers to understand business requirements and influence product requirements Design and communicate the design of software features or components that meet business and product requirements Leads and implements software to meet business and product requirements independently Review others work and give constructive feedback for improvement Resolve operational incidents, deciding on immediate and follow up actions and improvement plans Scope Finance: Responsible for headcount budget of 125k Line Management: Ad-hoc Teams: Mentoring of more junior staff. Line management of 1-2 staff Participates in ad-hoc teams with up to 30 members Participation in process or technology strategy working groups as SME or to represent their team/division Participation in cross divisional forums for improvement of share tools and practices Occasional participation as temporary member in another unit or department as SME Other information For Reward team use only Job Code Definition: Content Page 2 of 5

3 This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Page 3 of 5

4 What we do The BBC has been serving audiences online for more than 20 years. Across key products including BBC iplayer, BBC News and BBC Sport, BBC Weather, bbc.co.uk and now BBC Sounds, we entertain, educate and inform people in their millions every day. Behind the scenes, however, we have work to do. We are making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to audiences to building products that are shaped around people. We are creating personalised services that bring the right content, to the right people, at the right times a personalised BBC. It will be our greatest leap since iplayer, and it is right at the top of our agenda. Delivering it is going to require a fundamental reshaping of the BBC s culture and how we work. For the new Curation, Authoring and Metadata group in our Content Production Workflows department, that means a ground-up rethink of the tools, workflows and technologies involved in creating, describing and curating all of our content -- journalism, audio, video and digital alike. This means asking ourselves some big questions: What does online journalism look like as we leave the print world behind? How we do put tagging at the heart of a personalised BBC? The News and Sport front pages are seen by millions of people and are built by our tools: what are the best ways of curating the stories on them? What does structured content look like at scale, with a workflow that serves thousands of journalists around the world publishing in more than 40 languages? We re thinking about technology and culture too. Questions like: Instead of large unwieldy production tools can we build smarter and faster web-based apps out of React components and power them with GraphQL? How can we bring data science and machine learning to bear on content classification and publication workflows? And what are the ways of working that let one team of software engineers design, build and support this at the scale of the BBC? We re figuring out the answers to these questions and more like them, and we re starting right now. Come join us. Who we are We are a diverse, sociable team who are inclusive, care about each other and promote a healthy work-life balance. We offer opportunities for flexible working - including working from home - and a friendly working environment. We take personal development seriously and offer innovation time and access to a wide variety of training and conferences. We organize ourselves into semi-permanent autonomous agile squads pairprogramming across the full-stack using technologies such as React, Node, GraphQL, Scala, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, S3, AWS, Websockets. What we re looking for Page 4 of 5

5 We re looking for an experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality performant web applications across the full-stack. You may have experience in the specific technologies listed above, or maybe you have experience is similar technologies and can demonstrate your ability to adapt. As a Senior Software Engineer you will have experience in mentoring and supporting less experienced colleagues and advocating best engineering practices like pairprogramming, TDD, BDD and continuous integration. To ensure long-term success you will embrace change and have a desire to learn new technologies and a passion for innovation. Our team spans multiple sites (in this case Glasgow and London), so you will be comfortable with the challenges of collaborating with colleagues remotely. Page 5 of 5