Senior Elixir Engineer - BBC - UK

We’re growing our team and looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and run high-performance Elixir systems powering the routing and resiliency layer behind the BBC Web and Mobile products.

About us

My name: Ettore Berardi
My position: Tech Lead
Company name: BBC
Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk
Country: UK
Company info and history:
The BBC is the highest traffic website in the UK and one of the biggest in the world. We use Elixir to route millions of requests per hour to our backend services, providing a performant and highly available resiliency layer for most of the BBC web and apps traffic.

About the job

Job title
Senior Software Engineer
Job description
You will work in high-traffic, high-resilience solution in Elixir.
You will be using AWS services to provide scalability.
You will build and use tools to monitor and diagnose our live applications.
Salary range:
up to £82,800 + London Weighting
Closing Date:
23:59 on Sunday the 5th of July 2026
Qualifications or experience required:
Experience with Elixir
Position on remote work
The candidate should be resident in the UK.
Very flexible, we work remotely and also have offices in Glasgow, London, Salford, Newcastle and Cardiff.

About the interview process

applicant |> cv() |> informal_chat() |> coding_test() |> interview()

Apply here

Please DM me if you need further details.

Further info

You can watch this ElixirConfEU 2025 talk if you’d like a better sense of what the BBC team works on.