Senior Platform Engineer
UK – Remote | Permanent | Full-Time
Lead. Innovate. Inspire.
Bauer Media Audio is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to play a key role in transforming digital audio experiences. If you’re a hands-on developer with a passion for high-performance back-end systems, mentoring, and DevOps excellence, this is your chance to shine!
🔹 What You’ll Do
🎯 Lead and mentor engineers, fostering a high-performing, collaborative team.
🎯 Build and optimise scalable, secure, and resilient back-end systems in an AWS-hosted environment.
🎯 Take ownership of technical quality, helping shape architecture and strategy.
🎯 Work with cross-functional teams, ensuring development aligns with customer-first priorities.
🎯 Support DevOps adoption, including incident management, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
🎯 Drive performance tuning, security best practices, and system scalability.
✅ What You Bring
✔ 5+ years’ experience leading software development teams, ideally in media or audio streaming.
✔ Expertise in AWS, Cloudflare CDN, SQL, API design, and microservices.
✔ Strong programming skills in Go, TypeScript, PHP, or similar.
✔ Deep understanding of performance optimisation, debugging, and security best practices.
✔ Passion for mentorship and technical leadership.
✔ Resilient, adaptable, and proactive in a fast-paced environment.
💡 Why Join Us?
🎙 Work on cutting-edge digital audio solutions reaching millions worldwide.
🏡 Enjoy flexible remote working with an innovative, collaborative team.
💡 Shape the future of a fast-growing digital media powerhouse.
About Bauer Media Group
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.
What’s in it for you
- You’ll have 25 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! Find the full details of our benefits here
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
