Software Engineering Manager

Bauer Media Outdoor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company based in Greater London seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams in building innovative advertising platforms. This role focuses on delivering high-quality digital products, enhancing user experience, and driving Agile practices. Ideal candidates should have a modern tech background, experience in ad tech, and a passion for team development. Join a dynamic environment where you can empower engineers and impact the media landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a modern, cloud-native environment.
• Background in ad tech, media, or SaaS platforms.
• Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers.
• Build a culture of learning and high standards.
• Partner with teams to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Drive effective Agile delivery and continuous improvement.
• Champion inclusion and sustainable ways of working.

Skills

Leadership and coaching

Data-driven decision making

Full stack understanding

Agile methodologies

Technical judgment

Stakeholder management

Tools

React

Node.js

AWS

Terraform

Job description

About us

Bauer Media is a leading media business reaching millions of people across Europe through audio, digital, and out of home advertising. We’re behind well known brands including Kiss, Absolute, Magic, Grazia, and Empire. Within our Outdoor division, we connect audiences through thousands of digital screens and poster sites in high impact locations.

This role sits within Bauer Media Outdoor at a pivotal moment. We are rethinking how brands buy, manage, and measure outdoor advertising, moving towards modern, scalable platforms across programmatic, self service, and data led products. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead engineers at the centre of this transformation, delivering real world products used daily by advertisers, agencies, and internal teams.

Build high performing teams that deliver world class digital products at scale.

Bauer Media Outdoor Tech vision

Create tech that makes a difference. Empower teams. Delight customers. Shape the media world of tomorrow.

What you will be working on

You will help build and evolve our advertising platforms and ad tech that enable users to discover products, plan campaigns, target audiences using powerful proprietary data, manage content and campaigns, bid for inventory in real time, and understand performance and impact.

A core part of the role is ensuring these platforms deliver an outstanding user experience while operating reliably, securely, and cost effectively at significant scale. You will also support the responsible use of AI across our products as we embed intelligence into our offerings.

Role focus

As an Engineering Manager, you are accountable for people leadership, delivery excellence, and engineering culture. You will empower your teams to build high quality systems across our stack and enable the business to deliver advertising products and platforms at scale.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers across multiple levels
• Build a culture of learning, trust, experimentation, and high standards
• Partner closely with Product, User Experience, Data and Commercial teams to deliver meaningful outcomes
• Provide strong technical judgement to support architecture and design decisions
• Drive effective Agile delivery, healthy team rituals, and continuous improvement
• Ensure high quality engineering practices including TDD, code reviews, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance, and long term development for your teams
• Monitor reliability, delivery velocity, and engineering quality metrics
• Champion inclusion, psychological safety, and sustainable ways of working

What you will bring

• Experience leading engineering teams in a modern, cloud native environment
• Background in ad tech, media, SaaS, marketplaces, or other data driven, commercial platforms
• Full stack understanding, with the ability to engage deeply in technical discussions
• Strong technical foundations in modern stacks. You do not need to code daily, but you must understand systems deeply
• Experience delivering products at scale using Agile methodologies
• A disciplined, data informed approach to software delivery and continuous improvement
• The ability to inspire, coach, and grow engineers at all stages of their careers
• Strong stakeholder management and clear, confident communication
• A pragmatic mindset focused on outcomes over perfection

How success is measured

• Robust, scalable products that solve real user and customer problems
• Clear business impact through the products delivered and the technical decisions made
• High performing, engaged teams with strong retention
• Reliable delivery of impactful features and platforms
• Consistent application of strong engineering discipline across squads
• Engineers progressing in their careers through your leadership and mentorship

The technology environment

Our Outdoor engineering teams work in a modern, cloud native environment. You do not need experience with everything listed, but you should be comfortable learning new tools and working across a varied stack.

Frontend and web

React, Next.js, TypeScript

Backend and services

Node.js, Python, serverless architectures

Datastores

SQL and NoSQL technologies such as Postgres and DynamoDB

Cloud and infrastructure

AWS including Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, and S3

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Ways of working

Agile delivery, embedded non functional requirements for scale, CI/CD automation, test driven development, observability, and modern DevOps practices