Junior Software Engineer

This role is for a Junior Software Engineer in the Sounds Smart Speakers team. The Sounds Smart Speakers team develop BBC voice experiences on multiple platforms. The team look after the existing Alexa skill, which has over two million weekly unique users, and are responsible for delivering BBC Sounds to future emerging voice platforms. We're looking for strong collaborators who thrive in an agile team environment. Our engineering technology is Javascript and Typescript using NodeJS, hosted on AWS using technologies such AWS Lambda. • Contributing to the technical roadmap for the core capabilities Sounds on Smart speakers • Collaboration with the wider iPlayer & Sounds teams • Providing operational support of the team's services • Advocating for our 4 million users! You will have experience designing and writing software for large scale applications in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles. You will be passionate about developing and progressing within the team whilst balancing the needs of the our audiences. We're a highly collaborative department, focused on continual improvement and learning. We've long since embraced Dev Ops, with AWS as our primary platform. Fridays are reserved for personal development and cross-team guilds, something you'll have the opportunity to be involved in and champion.

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.