Software Engineer (front-end leaning)

JOB DETAILS

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (iPages, front-end leaning) 
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Corporate Digital Applications
LOCATION: Any BBC base in the UK or UK Remote 
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,000 - £50,133 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Corporate Digital & Applications (CDA) builds the BBC’s internal tools, including iPages, the system behind the BBC’s intranet and its public-facing corporate sites. You’ll be working on iPages, enhancing and crafting quality components that users love and website editors trust, empowering them to create engaging, accessible and user-friendly websites fast.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Shape the building blocks that create BBC websites, such as Media Centre, Writers or the Big Weekend. iPages is a mature product supporting around 400 sites, managed by 1000 editors. We continually enhance the components available to build sites and add new ones from time to time so editors can create the most engaging experiences for our internal and external audiences.

As a detail-oriented Software Engineer in iPages, you will help shape our product and related apps by updating, developing and – at times – designing components. The components you’ll develop will not only be visually appealing, clear and fully accessible for external and internal audiences, they’ll also be user friendly for our editors. Plus, you’ll spot opportunities to make them developer friendly, too, helping with our mission of delivering value at pace. 

The wider CDA team we’re a part of is a friendly, flexible, start‑up‑style group building the internal products that keep the BBC running. Aside from iPages, these products include custom-built web apps to manage procurement, scheduling of staff, internal events, finance, and HR functions such as people management or career development. 

CDA are currently working on enhancing our bespoke design system to optimise the development of new apps. You’ll be the first to identify opportunities to extend these design choices to iPages, creating a more consistent language across all our tools.You’ll be shaping tools used every day across one of the world’s most iconic organisations. Working in CDA you can expect real ownership, impact, and growth.

We’re a team that’s friendly, flexible, and supportive. If you are too, you’ll fit in well.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

•    Design, develop, test, and release well-engineered code
•    Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers 
•    Work with other UX focussed software engineers in CDA to contribute to the UX/UI design of our services
•    Contribute to a culture of design and engineering excellence and continuous improvement
•    Participating in pair programming, code reviews, and agile delivery
•    Continuously learning new technologies and keeping abreast of existing technologies, including applying modern front-end practices and high accessibility standards

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

•    Proven ability to design and build user interfaces and components that end-users love and expert users enjoy working with (share your portfolio/GitHub link with us)
•    Excellent front-end skills (HTML, CSS and JavaScript, ideally vanilla JavaScript and React)
•    Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and web accessibility standards
•    Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and attention to detail
•    A genuine commitment to your own growth and professional development and a willingness to share knowledge and help others

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

•    Experience building APIs, particularly GraphQL
•    Experience with a headless CMS
•    Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud service providers

Ready to make an impact?
If you’re excited about crafting high-quality user experiences, shaping the way the BBC’s corporate sites look and growing your career in a fast-moving, supportive team then we’d love to hear from you.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d encourage you to apply