Senior Software Engineer

Design and evolve services that are resilient, observable, and capable of operating at significant scale

Embed reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency into architectural decisions from the outset

Define and evolve service-level objectives (SLOs) and reliability standards

Lead capacity planning, performance testing, and scalability initiatives

Improve fault tolerance through better system design and failure modelling

Identify performance bottlenecks across services, APIs, and data pipelines

Optimise application code, queries, and service interactions to improve latency and throughput

Strengthen observability through improved monitoring, logging, and instrumentation

Reduce production incidents by improving resilience and early detection mechanisms

Promote high-quality engineering practices including clean code, automated testing, and CI/CD

Drive consistency in reliability and performance practices across multiple teams

Contribute to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term maintainability and system health

Introduce measurable quality and reliability metrics and help teams use them effectively

Collaborate with engineers, architects, and product teams to ensure systems are designed for scale and reliability

Provide technical guidance on complex engineering trade-offs

Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence

Help shape the long-term technical direction of our advertising platforms

Strong experience building and operating production-grade software systems

Experience designing distributed systems and cloud-based architectures

Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability

Deep understanding of non-functional requirements and how they influence architecture

Experience working with observability, monitoring, and performance analysis tools

Experience contributing to or establishing engineering standards across teams

Strong coding ability and a pragmatic approach to improving existing systems

Clear communication skills and the ability to influence across teams

Success in this role is reflected through measurable improvements in the reliability, performance, and quality of our platforms, including:

Platform services operating reliably under increasing production load

Clear service-level objectives defined and adopted across teams

Measurable improvements in system performance and efficiency

Reduction in production incidents and improved fault tolerance

Reduced time to detect and resolve production issues

Higher-quality, more maintainable codebases

Systems that scale effectively as traffic, data volumes, and markets grow

You will shape the reliability and scalability of platforms used across multiple European markets

Your work will directly influence revenue-critical systems

You will solve complex distributed systems challenges at real-world scale

You will help engineering teams move faster by strengthening the foundations they build on

You will play a key role in defining what engineering excellence looks like within Bauer Media Outdoor

Our Outdoor engineering teams operate in a modern cloud native environment.

Frontend React, Next.js, TypeScript

Backend Node.js, Python, serverless architectures

Data Postgres, DynamoDB and other SQL or NoSQL technologies

Cloud AWS including Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and S3

Infrastructure Terraform and infrastructure as code

Engineering practices CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices