Senior Backend/Platform Developer

Senior Backend/Platform Developer

Remote | Permanent | Full-Time

Lead. Innovate. Inspire.

Bauer Media Audio is looking for a Senior Backend/Platform Developer 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.

If you?re ready to take on a leadership role and make a real impact in digital audio, apply today! ??

Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
• Discounted high street vouchers
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Internal Bauer Academy ? Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
• Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
• Thrive initiatives ? Wellbeing at Bauer
• Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world?s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.

Belonging at Bauer Mission statement

People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.

What we will offer you

Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That?s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It?s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you?ll be an important part of this as well,

Our mental health at work

We?re proud to be the driving force behind the ?Where?s your head at?? campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.