Software Engineer (Web Developer)

Job Description

The purpose of the visual journalism team is to unlock the potential of multimedia storytelling across all our platforms - mobile, desktop, tablet and TV. By using graphical tools and combining those of data and journalistic rigour, the team aims to produce powerful visual explanations that improve understanding of the news.

We are looking for web developers who are enthusiastic about online journalism to join a BBC World Service Data and Visual Journalism team based in Delhi. The World Service Data and Visual Journalism hubs will be made up of an editor, and UX designer and a developer. As the developer in this team you will be responsible for:

1. Building technical solutions to meet the requirements of the local design and editorial team.

2. Assessing the technical feasibility of projects and giving realistic time estimations for the work required.

3. Escalating any technical queries and all technical design where new or innovative approaches are being used for review to the wider technical team.

4. 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 Delhi 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.

• Excellent front-end web development skills:
  • HTML. Semantic markup patterns for flexible reuse and accessibility.
  • 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. 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.
• 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.

Keyskills :
javasqljavascriptsql serverjqueryresponsive web designfront endsocial mediaweb servicesweb developmentsemantic markuptechnical designvisual journalismonline journalismsoftware developmentproject administrationprogressive enhancementintern