Senior Software Engineer - AdTech Platforms

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About Bauer Media Outdoor (BMO)

Bauer Media Outdoor, a leader in the advertising world, boasts an impressive portfolio across 13 markets. Our mission is to "Create tech that makes a difference - empower teams, delight customers, shape the media world of tomorrow" to revolutionise the media landscape, focusing on data-driven innovations and robust infrastructure. Technology is at the heart of our operations, emphasising transparency, accountability, and value. Our goal is to be the industry-leading technology team, renowned for customer-centric, reliable, fast, flexible, and innovative solutions. Come, be a part of our journey to redefine media!

The Role

We\'re looking for a Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead who enjoys combining hands-on technical expertise with guiding and enabling others. This is a practical role — you\'ll design and build scalable systems while supporting a small team of engineers to deliver software that is reliable, well-tested, and meaningful for our customers. As the technical lead, you\'ll model high standards in code quality, testing, and delivery, while mentoring and supporting those around you. You\'ll help simplify complexity, embed best practices, and encourage a culture of shared ownership and continuous learning. This is a senior engineering role where you\'ll remain hands-on while influencing the technical direction and team culture, without moving into people management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead by example: Write high-quality, maintainable code while fostering best practices across the team.
• Technical impact: Design and deliver scalable, performant systems that support high traffic, data volumes, transactional environments.
• Customer focus: Translate business needs into impactful technical solutions with a product-first mindset.
• Champion quality: Ensure all software is sufficiently tested, monitored, and built with reliability in mind.
• Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, and stakeholders to align priorities and deliver value quickly and effectively.
• Team support: Mentor and coach team members, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Shape technical direction: Contribute to architecture discussions and help evolve our systems for growth and scale.

What We're Looking For

• Experience as a full-stack engineer or tech lead within collaborative product engineering teams.
• Background in building distributed, scalable, and reliable systems.
• Familiarity with high-transaction, high-traffic, or low-latency environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern technologies. Our stack includes React, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Commitment to writing secure, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• A supportive leader who builds trust, inclusivity, and shared responsibility within the team.
• Exposure to AdTech concepts such as audience segmentation, programmatic buying, real-time bidding, personalised ad delivery, or campaign optimisation is beneficial.

What Success Looks Like (6 - 12 months)

• Delivered impactful, scalable solutions to business needs and led at least one initiative end-to-end.
• Raised standards on testing, observability, and code quality within the team.
• Built trust as a hands-on tech lead while validating product solutions and guiding direction.
• Helped deliver software that is reliable, user-focused, and aligned to business goals.
• Contributed to evolving the tech stack and practices to support growth and scale.

What’s in it for you?

Out-of-home Advertising is a well-established medium undergoing a digital revolution, and Bauer Media Outdoor is positioned to lead. You will be at the forefront of this journey, working with peers to drive innovation, grow your skills with the latest tech, and collaborate with great colleagues. You\'ll have influence and the opportunity to create something you can be proud of.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• 10% performance related annual bonus
• 33 paid holidays including bank holiday
• Company Pension Scheme paid up to 8%
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Life Insurance and group income protection scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Why Us?

At Bauer Media Outdoor, we\'re more than a tech-driven advertising leader—we\'re a community focused on creating meaningful impact through innovative solutions. We offer an innovative landscape, collaborative culture, opportunities for career development, and a commitment to work-life balance. Our focus is on impact, transparency, and fairness. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need this job description in another format or require adjustments for your application/interview process, please let us know at careers@bauermediaoutdoor.com

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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