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Software Engineering Specialist
The Software Engineering Specialist independently executes advanced activities to deliver the engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross-functional business partnering and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Crafting next-gen software solutions using advanced React features, and integrating with GraphQL and AI services.
- Engaging in hands-on development, focusing on React, Next.JS, and other contemporary frameworks.
- Collaborating closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Designers, and other stakeholders within your agile squad to deliver unparalleled digital interfaces across the EE brand.
- Pioneering enhancements on our systems to keep them at the forefront of technological innovation.
- Ensuring robustness and reliability post-release and offering dedicated incident support.
- Performing rigorous peer reviews to maintain our standard of excellence.
- Aligning your technical solutions with our architectural tenets while ensuring they're performant, secure, and accessible.
- Partnering with Lead Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Chapter leads to shape and refine our front end technical standards and strategies.
- Provide leadership across our front Community of practices, building a strong sense of technical purpose across our engineers.
- Upholding our core values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant.
Skills and Experience
7 Plus years of experience:- Mastery in JavaScript with a focus on React, Hooks, Redux, and Next.JS. Expertise in HTML5 and CSS3.
- Proficient in unit and integration testing tools, e.g., Jest.
- Experience with JSON manipulation and robust API integrations.
- Adept at performance optimization techniques.
- Strong emphasis on quality, automation, and insightful metrics.
- Proven ability in software configuration management tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
- Comprehensive understanding of front end architectures, patterns, and advanced tooling.
- Seasoned in CI/CD processes, micro frontends, and mono repos.
- Thrives in a dynamic agile environment, bringing problem-solving and analytical skills to the table.
- Strong planning, time-management, and relationship-building skills, both within and external to the team.
Nice to have skills:
- Flutter development prowess.
- Proven experience in crafting mobile applications.
About Us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A Few Points to Note:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
Don't Meet Every Single Requirement?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
We're a global company with over 89,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries worldwide. And to keep our millions of customers happy, our business activities are pretty wide-ranging too. Internet and broadband is big for us, but we're a major player in networked IT services as well.
Our values
We've updated our BT values. We've developed the new ones…
We're a global company with over 89,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries worldwide. And to keep our millions of customers happy, our business activities are pretty wide-ranging too. Internet and broadband is big for us, but we're a major player in networked IT services as well.
Our values
We've updated our BT values. We've developed the new ones through conversations with BT people across world. They described what it feels like on our best days, and how they would like everyone in BT to work together.
Customer - We are here for our customers - We're committed to making things better for our customers - by providing the vital services they rely on and finding new ways to improve their lives and businesses. We're knowledgeable, professional, dependable and easy to do business with. If things go wrong, we take responsibility for putting them right.
Team - We help each other achieve more - We are one team and never let a colleague fail. We focus on shared goals and bring BT together for our customers, even when we're in different parts of the business or on different sides of the globe. We give feedback, coach and learn. We say thank you for a job well done.
Honesty - We are honest and respectful - We speak honestly and listen. We show respect to colleagues and customers. We care about making BT better and stronger, challenging ourselves to get to the heart of things. We enjoy working in a diverse organisation and benefit from looking at things in different ways.
Change - We all make change happen - Our industry changes quickly and so do we. We improve what we do for customers and BT by thinking big, starting small and moving fast. We anticipate the future, and each year aim to be better than last.
Pride - We are proud to make a difference - We believe BT isn't just another business. We make a real difference through our services and our role in the communities where we operate. We're all ambassadors for BT. Every one of us helps to keep BT strong, by acting with integrity and living our values. We make BT a place where we're proud to work.
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