The BBC, a global broadcaster reaching a weekly audience of more than 100 million on Radio, TV, Digital (language sites and bbcafrica.com), Mobile and Social Media.
POSITION : Software Engineer - (Web Developer / Javascript)
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for web developers who are enthusiastic about online journalism to join a BBC World Service Data and Visual Journalism team in Lagos The World Service Data and Visual Journalism hubs will be made up of an editor, UX designer and a developer. As the developer in this team you will be responsible for:
- Building technical solutions to meet the requirements of the local design and editorial team.
- Assessing the technical feasibility of projects and giving realistic time estimations for the work required.
- Escalating any technical queries and all technical design where new or innovative approaches are being used for review to the wider technical team.
- Liaising with the wider Software development team in BBC News to ensure that all deployments to the live servers are peer reviewed and managed via GitHub with a London based Lead Developer across the process:
- You will be based in Lagos but you will also be a member of a wider international development team and will take part in that community.
- You will have the freedom to work on locally defined projects, but will be supported by structures and processes that ensure you will have excellent training and development opportunities and are always backed up by a team who will help you produce work to the highest standard.
Key Responsibilities:
- To write server side code (mainly NodeJS, experience of Ruby/PHP desired)
- To work to current good software development practices.
- To write unit and integration tests using automated test frameworks.
- To work well in a team context according to the team’s shared practices.
- Work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and to proactively shepherd new features to live.
- To write world class HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Essential Attributes:
- Excellent front-end web development skills: o HTML. Semantic markup patterns for flexible reuse and accessibility. o CSS. Good understanding of modern techniques such as Responsive Web Design, recent CSS advances such as flexbox but also supporting legacy browsers.
- JAVASCRIPT. Excellent JavaScript programming skills, with knowledge of developing large, modular applications. Ability to write in ES6, and an appreciation of backwards-compatible / cross-browser JavaScript.
Building Robust Experiences:
- Ability to create production ready code with tests in one of: PHP, Ruby, Python or NodeJS (training will be provided if you don’t know PHP or NodeJS).
- Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures and consuming RESTful web services via HTTP.
- Experience of working in an agile or collaborative way.
- Familiarity in using GitHub workflows
- A level of familiarity with AWS or similar Cloud Infrastructure and associated tooling.
- Using progressive enhancement and mobile first approaches to create experiences that work everywhere and for everyone.
- Accessibility - support all browsers with core content, ensure compliance with screen readers, in accordance with WAI standards, etc
- Great understanding of UX concerns. We want smart devs who can provide valuable feedback to designers to improve wireframes and designs.
A Big Plus would be:
- An enthusiasm for News.
- Healthy interest in emerging platform level technologies - queues, microservices, caches etc.
- Understanding of CI, experience with using a CI system (Hudson, Jenkins).
- Knowledge of strategies to improve performance (HTTP caching, language best practices).
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