The company
The BBC. One of the most recognized media institutions on the planet, with a global audience in the hundreds of millions and a 100-year reputation for quality. Working here — even remotely, even part-time — means your work reaches a scale most engineers never touch.
The project
BritBox is the BBC and ITV's answer to the streaming wars: a platform competing directly with Netflix, Disney+, and every other service fighting for screen time. The challenge wasn't building something from scratch — it was moving fast, replicating the features users expect from the best streaming platforms without the headcount those platforms have.
What I did
- Feature replication at speed — analyzed how leading streaming platforms built their core UX patterns and shipped equivalent features in React Native faster and leaner
- Lean execution — did more with less. The kind of constraint that teaches you where complexity actually comes from and how to cut it
- International remote — worked across time zones from Latin America into the London team, coordinating in a fully English-speaking, fast-moving environment
- Mobile streaming UX — video players, content discovery, subscription flows — the pieces that determine whether users stay or churn
Stack
React Native · TypeScript · Streaming Platform · Mobile UX · Remote · London