Mid Software Engineer

You’ll be joining Bauer Media Audio (BMA), Europe’s biggest commercial audio broadcaster, connecting audiences across nine markets to the music, stories and experiences they love. Bauer Media Audio is making a significant investment in a new in‑house software development hub in Manchester. This new hub reinforces Manchester’s position as a key technology centre for Bauer Media Audio, alongside its existing locations.

We’re creating a new development team to build innovative business critical solutions that will power Bauer Media’s audio platform of the future. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, working closely with product and technology peers to ensure our platforms meet the evolving needs of the business and our international markets.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll contribute to building the next generation Audio Platform at Bauer Media Audio. Working alongside senior engineers, you’ll build and maintain features and services, grow your skills, and take on increasing ownership as the team scales.

You'll contribute to feature delivery, participate in code review, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver quality software.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain features and services across the platform.
• Contribute to prototyping and early-stage feature work
• Participate in code review, contributing and receiving feedback constructively, and support junior engineers as the team grows.
• Collaborate with product and technology teams.
• Apply Dev Ops practices and contribute to CI/CD, automation, and observability.
• Write and maintain tests (unit, integration) and apply security best practices in day-to-day development.
• Participate in incident management.
• Support recruitment and onboarding.

• Solid engineering experience, with ability to work independently on features across client and server layers.
• Flexibility to move across front-end and back-end technologies, adapting quickly to different parts of the stack as the team and product evolve.
• Experience with Node/Type Script, React, Java, AWS; strong candidates with comparable experience welcome.
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, and cloud deployment.
• Experience with CI/CD and containerisation.
• Security best practices knowledge.
• Good problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Media or streaming industry experience.
• Interest in AI engineering tools.

This is a permanent, hybrid, full-time role with an in-office presence twice a week in our Manchester hub. This role also includes rota participation.

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print.

But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

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