Bbc Leeds Jobs – Mobile Engineer

Overview

Position Title: Mobile Engineer

Company: BBC

Location: Leeds, UK

Job Description

BBC Design + Engineering offers a wide range of stretching, creative and impactful careers for talented people. We are the team that’s building the future of the BBC, whilst delivering TV, radio and online services to millions of people worldwide every day.

As well as being the people behind iPlayer and the News, Sports and Children’s services, we develop, support and maintain the systems and infrastructure that keeps the BBC on air and are responsible for the biggest British-run digital service in the world. In D+E, you’ll be working on unique challenges, hand in hand with the best creative minds in the UK and alongside one of the world’s leading production and distribution companies (BBC Studios).

We offer challenging work but with the time to think and do things right. We value Diversity & Inclusion everywhere at the BBC and encourage people of all background to apply for the role and tell us why they believe they’d be an good addition to the BBC.

Responsibilities:

• Everybody on the team has a say in how we work, so you need to be able to work with others across disciplines – collaborating with UX designers, API engineers, testers, and product owners so that together we can make everything we do the best it can possibly be.
• You’ll help create team goals and objectives, contribute feature ideas and discuss the future direction of the product, and give input in retrospectives on how we’re performing as a team and what we can do to improve.
• Even this job description was written collaboratively, using feedback and suggestions from everyone on the team.
• As a Mobile Engineer, you will contribute to the development of features, fix bugs and issues, review code from others in the team, and make a key contribution to the entire development lifecycle, from conception and discovery through development and delivery.
• You’ll also have opportunities to grow and specialise.
• We want you to be passionate about the future of technology in broadcasting, and the impact you can have.
• You’ll need a desire to keep learning and growing, with support from cross-team groups, meet-ups, and chapters focussed on topics such as Android and iOS development, accessibility, security, development practices, continuous delivery, and many other areas of interest.

Requirements:

• Testing tools and approaches, including Test-Driven Development, and test frameworks such as XCTest, JUnit, and Robolectric.
• Engineering principles, OO, and design patterns.
• API creation and integration.
• Agile software development methodologies, techniques, and processes.
• Cloud engineering platforms such as AWS.
• Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin.
• Mobile Application development on iOS and/or Android platforms.
• High capacity, high traffic, high availability of mobile apps.
• Knowledge and understanding of the development and design experience on mobile phone platforms.
• Delivering large-scale projects within an agile multi-disciplined team.