Senior Software Engineer - BBC - UK

We are looking to expand our team with a Senior Software Engineer to join my team at the BBC.

I recently gave a talk at ElixirConfEU about our work with Elixir. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20.

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 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:

Competitive

Position on remote work:

Very flexible, we work remotely and also have offices in Glasgow, London, Manchester and Cardiff. The candidate should be resident in the UK.

Qualifications or experience required:

Experience with Elixir, experience with AWS.

What the successful job applicant will be working on:

Working on the problems of high load, high availability, resilience, scalability for usual load and important events. Our application is relied upon by many internal teams to build for their products.

Your contribution will be used by millions of people every day.

We frequently collaborate with teams across various locations, which presents numerous opportunities to engage in cross-cutting projects that span multiple teams.

You’ll get 10% time every fortnight to work on new ideas to make things easier or innovate for the team.

About the interview process:

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