Software Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios COO Group

LOCATION: London – Light House

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,000 - £58,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC Media Services team to build the software powering audio and video experiences for millions worldwide. As a Software Engineer, you’ll design, develop, test, and maintain high‑quality systems that support live streaming, on‑demand content, and podcasts. Your work will ensure scalable, reliable, and well‑engineered solutions that solve real business problems and elevate BBC’s global media delivery.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll be part of the group responsible for encoding, packaging, publishing, and playback of BBC’s online media impacting audiences across the globe. Working with modern streaming technologies, you’ll help deliver high‑quality, reliable playback across diverse platforms. The team collaborates across BBC Studios and BBC.com, offering opportunities to grow your engineering skills while shaping consistent and engaging media experiences at scale.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high‑quality software applications and services.
• Collaborate with product managers, business analysts, and engineers to deliver features end‑to‑end.
• Write clean, well‑documented, maintainable code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve software defects and production issues.
• Contribute to system design discussions and technical decisions.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Maintain and enhance existing applications.
• Follow secure coding practices and promote engineering excellence.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, GitHub/CI‑CD, testing practices, Linux‑based systems, and AWS.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• Experience with Python and Ruby.
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams.
• Exposure to system design and distributed systems.
  
  

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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Disclaimer

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.