About BBC Maestro 

BBC Maestro is a service provided by Maestro Media in partnership with BBC Studios, on a mission to revolutionise the way we fuel our creative dreams and ambitions. 

We are an educational service crafted to give our learners the techniques, tools, confidence and inspiration to ignite their passion and develop fundamental skills in different aspirational subjects. Some of the most experienced creators in the world teach our courses in simple steps. 

Following a successful launch we are developing better product experiences that strengthen learning outcomes for our users and are developing new market strategies to grow and diversify our audience base. 

About the role

We're looking for a React Native developer to help with the continued development of our mobile platform, which is in service of a great user experience.

You will be responsible for working with wider tech, product team and 3rd party specialist to support both platform growth and the engagement and retention of customer, by ensuring features and functionality to the App are technically robust, well tested and improve the performance for users.

You'll work closely with the Head of Engineering, Product Managers and other engineers on the product roadmap, while also collaborating with wide teams across product, strategy and marketing to ensure functional is prioritised to maximise business value and user outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Continue to develop our React Native app experience, with 3rd parties and internal product team
• Optimise features that help people learn through technology
• Continuously improve our developer experience

How we work

Our product and engineering teams work in an agile way. You’ll be involved from early product discussions, through to architecture planning, ticket creation, implementation and reviews from QA and other engineers.

We use GitHub Flow and utilise feature flags to allow us to work as iteratively as possible, release small changes multiple times daily and make pull requests manageable for peer review.

Requirements

We're looking for a highly motivated developer with good front-end development experience. You'll need to be able to work with different stakeholders to understand requirements from both a technical and product standpoint.

Technical requirements

• You're proficient with JavaScript and React with at least 3 years of experience
• You've worked on at least one SaaS product and Mobile application
• You've got experience with Git and GitHub
• Strong experience with React Native (or strong React experience) and building SaaS products

Preferred (but not essential)

• Experience building streamed video services
• Experience working with APIs

Attitude and preferences

• You demonstrate critical thinking across a breadth of business challenges, leaning into data and research to validate your thinking and use product / user insights to demonstrate the value of your technical decisions.
• You bring decisiveness and initiative to problem solving and evaluate the impact of your decisions. 
• You can clearly communicate your ideas and strategy with others as well as incorporate team decisions into your work.

• You can collaborate effectively with other disciplines, leaders and teams; having empathy for and listening to the needs of others. 
• You are comfortable making trade-offs for the benefit of the collective needs of the team and/or business. 
• You care about company culture and see your own responsibility in creating a positive work environment 
• You are adaptable in your approach; validating your decision and adjusting with new insights. 
• You are up to date with latest industry trends. You enjoy testing new ideas.
• Enjoy working in a start-up environment setup. You can handle the pace and ambiguity and are able to manage your workload independently while knowing when to ask for help. 
• You enjoy learning and sharing knowledge with others. 

Benefits

Salary for the role is £60,000- £75,000 pa

This is dependent on the level of your experience within our framework, where you are located in the UK

We also have 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and private medical cover.

Please note that we cannot proceed applications from overseas candidates neither do we have the facility to sponsor visas for work in the UK. Applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship will be immediately rejected on this basis.

How we work

We will provide a supportive and flexible working environment for the right candidate and set them up to succeed. You’ll have regular 121s with your manager and the opportunity to develop close relationships with leaders across the business.

We’re an early-stage company and whilst we don’t yet have mature personal development programmes, we are careful to listen to the needs of our team and provide personal goals and objectives to support and challenge you in achieving your personal aspirations.

We encourage our team to engage in communities of practice and support your attendance of such events.

We have a lovely dog friendly London office 7 mins walk from Kings Cross station, which we ask people to work from 3 days per week. However, as we formed in the midst of the pandemic many of our team are spread across the country and so we rely on hybrid working practices.

We ❤️ Diversity

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We positively encourage applications from underrepresented groups.

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