# Software Engineer Apprentice

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Glasgow, GBR
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £24,650
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Glasgow-Software-Engineering-Apprenticeship-Level-6-Glasgow-G511DA/1375736457/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Join the BBC as a Software Engineer Apprentice, working on the Audio Content Metadata (ACM) team, responsible for managing metadata that powers BBC audio services, including BBC Sounds.

As a Software Engineer apprentice, you will gain hands-on experience in developing, maintaining, and improving backend services, working alongside experienced engineers.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop your understanding of software engineering principles and apply them to all stages of the solution development life cycle.

- Gain hands-on experience in the BBC's software engineering teams.

- Contribute to modernising existing systems and developing new capabilities.

- Explore considerations and tackle troubleshooting concerns, guided by your team.

Benefits:

- Industry-recognised qualification.

- Excellent career and professional development.

- Fair pay and flexible benefits, including a competitive salary package, a 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave, and a defined pension scheme.

- Dedicated Team Manager and Scheme Specialist to help with your development.

- Training and Mentoring by industry professionals.

Eligibility criteria:

- Be 18 years old or over by the time the apprenticeship begins.

- Have lived in the UK continuously for the last three years prior to the start of the apprenticeship.

- Be legally eligible to work full-time in the UK for the entire duration of the apprenticeship.

- Not currently be enrolled in another apprenticeship programme.

- Not already hold a qualification in the same subject area at the same or a higher level than this apprenticeship.

- Have maths and English GCSE at Grade 4/C or above or National 5 (Scotland) at C or equivalent qualification.

- Have some experience of coding and/or software engineering.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- backend services
- metadata management
- agile ways of working
- problem-solving
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- AI
- Machine Learning
- coding

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