Job Specifications
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.
Kick-start your engineering career building next-generation products for Bauer Outdoor.
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 be building world class advertising products and ad-tech that allow our employees and customers to discover our advertising products, plan advertising campaigns, target audiences using powerful and proprietary data, manage campaigns and content, bid for our inventory on a real-time basis, and view the impact and performance of their adverts.
You will be delivering an outstanding experience, embedding AI into what we offer and making sure this operates reliably and cost effectively at a massive scale.
Role focus:
Start your engineering career building real, production-grade systems while learning from experienced mentors in a collaborative environment.
You'll do:
Build, test, and maintain features under guidance from senior engineers
Contribute to code reviews, learning how to deliver clean, maintainable code
Write unit and integration tests for your code
Participate in daily stand-ups, retros, and agile ceremonies
Learn our stack, processes, and architecture patterns
Fix bugs and gradually take ownership of small modules
How you will behave and act:
Shows curiosity and willingness to learn
Accepts and acts on feedback
Collaborates effectively with team members
Communicates with clarity to peers and manager
You'll bring:
Understanding of core programming principles (object-oriented and/or functional)
Familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, and modern frameworks
Curiosity, growth mindset, and collaborative attitude
Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related discipline (or strong coding bootcamp experience)
Measures of success:
Increasing code quality and autonomy
Active engagement in team learning and feedback loops
Delivery of small but meaningful contributions to production
The type of tech you will be working on:
At Bauer Media's Outdoor division, our engineering teams work with a modern, cloud-native technology environment. While you don't need experience with everything listed, you should be comfortable learning new tools and working across a varied stack.
Our typical technologies include:
Frontend & Web
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Backend & Services
Node.js
Python
Serverless development
Datastores
SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Postgres, Dynamo DB)
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, S3, etc.)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Ways of Working
Agile delivery
Non-functional requirements embedded for scaling
CI/CD automation
Test-driven development (TDD)
Observability and modern DevOps practices
About the Company
Bauer Media Outdoor UK is one of the UK’s largest Out of Home media and infrastructure companies, operating more than 33,000 advertising sites nationwide and employing 600+ people in 14 locations. Our mission is To Create the Future of Media, transforming our estate to the benefit of all our stakeholders, through data-driven innovations and infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide both A Platform for Brands & A Platform for Good, delivering on advertisers’ media objectives whilst having a positive impact on the world around...
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