Software Engineer in Manchester

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 engineering 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 engineering 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.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Software Engineer, you’ll contribute to building the audio platform of the future 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 will play a key role in helping to create a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment that is psychologically safe, where everyone can be their authentic selves and do their best work, every day.

Your Role

• Build and deliver: Develop and maintain features and services across the platform, taking increasing ownership as you and the team grow. Contribute to prototyping and early-stage feature work.
• Collaborate and contribute: Participate in code review – giving and receiving feedback constructively as part of how the team improves together. Contribute to technical discussions within your squad, sharing your perspective and growing your understanding of how the broader architecture fits together.
• Champion quality and operational excellence: Apply DevOps practices and contribute to CI/CD, automation, and observability as a natural part of how you work. Write and maintain tests (unit, integration) and apply security best practices in day-to-day development.
• Support the team: Work collaboratively with colleagues across experience levels – giving and receiving support, pairing, and sharing knowledge as part of a team that grows together.

What We’re Looking For

• Technical capability: Solid engineering experience, with the ability to work independently on features across frontend and backend – including strong problem-solving and debugging skills. Familiarity with our core stack - a Java Spring Boot and AWS back end, with a TypeScript/React front end - or a comparable modern stack, with the appetite to move across technologies.
• Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills – able to collaborate across disciplines and express technical ideas clearly. A constructive approach to giving and receiving feedback, and a habit of sharing knowledge with colleagues.
• Industry and delivery experience: Experience working in a product-led, agile software delivery environment. Some familiarity with incident management or on-call responsibilities.

Working Pattern and Location

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

Why Join Us?

The chance to work in 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 its people, practices, and technology – with genuine support for skills development.

What’s in it for you: You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use. Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay. You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.