Senior 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 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.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in laying the technical foundations of this new engineering department. You’ll lead hands‑on development of early infrastructure and prototyping work that gives the team technical momentum, 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, taking ownership of specific tools and functional areas as a subject matter expert.
• Contribute to critical architectural components and prototypes, setting the quality bar by example and helping shape 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) in collaboration with QA, and uphold security standards across design and review (e.g. OWASP).
• Participate in in‑hours and out‑of‑hours incident management rotas, providing clear, calm communication 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 credible depth across both client and server layers of modern web products.
• Proficiency across a modern full‑stack toolchain such as Node/TypeScript + React on the front end, Java back end, and AWS + Kubernetes + Kafka for infrastructure; we welcome strong candidates with similar experience.
• 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, with the 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.

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. And much more!

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That’s why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin colour, disability in our house. 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 careershub@bauermedia.co.uk. We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.