Job profile

Salary: £34,602 – £40,545 per annum 

We are looking for a Junior Developer to join the BFI’s Data & Digital Preservation team.   

The Junior Developer will support the Knowledge, Learning & Collections Developer in the creation and maintenance of tools, services, processes and applications for acquisition, documentation, digital preservation and access in the BFI National Archive.  They will also work on supporting the users and other stakeholders of the services created by the Knowledge, Learning & Collections Development team, by developing training resources, gathering requirements and responding to issues and queries 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Monitor Service Desk tickets related to the tools, services, processes and applications created by the KLC Development team; respond to users, investigate issues and liaise with KLC Developer as required to diagnose and remediate 

• Monitor critical systems, tools, and processes and respond to issues or failures, by investigating in logs and code repositories, analysing cause and either undertake fix or liaise with KLC Developer to establish and implement a solution 

• Contribute to creation, refactoring, peer review and test development of Python codebase managed by KLC Development team; including external packages such as Flask and Requests, and orchestration frameworks such Dagster 

• Contribute to management of Python virtual environments across a set of Linux Ubuntu servers, contribute to administration of environment variables, crontab scheduling and documentation of changes 

We are looking for candidates who have: 

• Qualification in software development, computer science or similar, or equivalent, or demonstrable experience working in a similar role 

• Experience developing software using Python 3.11 or 3.12, including understanding of Python standard library, external packages and virtual environments 

• Practical experience using Python testing frameworks, particularly Pytest, is highly desirable 

• Audiovisual file metadata interrogation and transcoding experience using Python would be a distinct advantage 

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description. 

About the BFI  

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow. 

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.  

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.  

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by clicking the link to the left.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Wednesday 21st August 2024 

First interviews will be held on Friday 13th September 2024 

Second interviews will be held on 17-19 September 2024