Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life
We're 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 investing in a new in house software development hub in Manchester to build innovative, business critical solutions that power the audio platform of the future.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll lay the technical foundations of this new engineering department, lead hands on development, mentor other engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing systems.
Your Role
You'll be responsible for leading hands on development efforts, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain full stack services across our platform, owning specific tools and functional areas as a subject matter expert.
- Contribute to critical architectural components and prototypes, setting the quality bar by example and shaping technical direction alongside engineering leadership.
- Lead small feature driven sub teams and mentor junior and mid level engineers through code review, pair working, and structured feedback.
- Collaborate with product and technology teams to align development with customer needs, clarify requirements, and surface dependencies and risks early.
- Champion DevOps practices under a "you build it, you run it" model - improving CI/CD, automation, and observability across the platform.
- Lead testing strategies (unit, integration, end to end) with QA and uphold security standards across design and review (e.g., OWASP).
- Participate in in hours and out of hours incident management rotas, communicating clearly during high pressure situations.
- Contribute to recruitment and onboarding of new team members as we grow the department.
The Skills You Will Bring
Required:
- Significant hands on full stack engineering experience, with depth across both client and server layers of modern web products.
- Proficiency with a modern full stack toolchain such as Node/TypeScript + React on the front end, Java back end, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and-preferably-custom experience in these areas.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, API design, event driven systems, and cloud based deployment (AWS preferred).
- Experience with CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and observability in live production environments.
- Proven experience mentoring and leading development teams or feature squads.
- Awareness of common security vulnerabilities and best practices (e.g., OWASP) and the ability to apply them in design and code review.
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills, and composure to lead through pressure.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities across engineering and business audiences.
- High emotional intelligence and adaptability in fast paced environments.
- Experience in the media, audio streaming, or consumer platform industry.
- Familiarity with incident management and 24/7 supported services.
- Interest in AI assisted engineering tooling (e.g., Copilot, Claude) and how it can improve team productivity and code quality.
- Technical writing and documentation skills.
Working Pattern and Location
This is a permanent, hybrid, full time role with an in office presence twice a week in our Manchester hub. Participation in in hours and out of hours incident management rotas is required.
Why Join Us?
- The chance to be part of a team building platforms that reach millions of listeners across Europe, with real impact on the products people use every day.
- A growing engineering organisation investing heavily in people, practices, and technology, with genuine support for leadership development.
- A collaborative, product led environment where engineering has a clear and respected voice in shaping business outcomes.
- An environment that values empathy, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
Interview Process
- Intro call with Talent Acquisition
- Remote technical interview
Equal Opportunities
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. We welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of religion, gender, skin color, disability, and other protected characteristics.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing .
Benefits
- 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days.
- Access to Bauer Academy for internal training.
- Enhanced maternity/adoption, paternity and shared parental leave pay.
- Opportunity for flexible working.
- Additional benefits available upon offer.
Recruitment Notice
We are actively recruiting for this position, and the job advert may close earlier than expected.