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Job Requisition ID: 47677
Job Closing Date: 05/07/2026
Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT
| Glasgow, GBR, G511DA
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN
| Salford, GBR, M50 2QH
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JOB DETAILS
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
JOB REF: 47677
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Enablement
LOCATION: London/Glasgow/Salford/Cardiff/Newcastle – Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £54,600 - £82,800 + London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Sunday the 5th of July 2026
PROPOSED INTERVIEW DATE: Commencing the 16th of July 2026 * This is subject to change
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.
Interview Process
The selection process will consist of two stages:
- coding assessment designed to evaluate technical proficiency.
A comprehensive interview comprising:
- a technical presentation, and
- a blended competency-based interview focused on values and behaviours and technial ability.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the BBC team responsible for the routing and resiliency layer serving most of our global Web and Apps products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and operating a high-performance cluster of Elixir applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide, ensuring our key services are fast, reliable, and always available.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You’d join a collaborative team of expert Elixir engineers dedicated to performance and resilience. You will work on highly impactful solutions, leveraging OTP to serve millions of users globally. We foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning, offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges at a massive scale.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Develop and maintain robust, scalable software in Elixir.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
- Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for our services.
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
- Contribute to code reviews and foster a culture of high-quality engineering.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.
- Professional experience with functional programming languages (e.g., Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, F#) or modern statically typed languages (e.g., Rust, Go) developing web applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in designing systems for observability, including effective monitoring, detailed logging, comprehensive performance testing strategies, and hands-on experience with modern observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch to implement and manage monitoring solutions.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, or other cloud providers such as GCP or Azure, to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality and delivery efficiency.
DESIRED :
- In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and performance tuning.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience working effectively in multi-team environments, with strong communication and collaboration skills to support engagement with teams and engineers.
- Familiarity with technical writing.
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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.
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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.
For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
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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.
