Jobs, fresher vacancy - Lead Software Engineer • UK

Company: Bauer Media Outdoor

UK

About usBauer 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.Build world class digital advertising platforms that operate at massive scale and power the future of Outdoor media. Bauer Media Outdoor Tech visionCreate tech that makes a difference. Empower teams. Delight customers. Shape the media world of tomorrow.What you will be working onYou will be building world class advertising products and ad tech that allow our employees and customers to discover advertising products, plan campaigns, target audiences using powerful proprietary data, manage campaigns and content, bid for inventory in real time, and view performance and impact.A core part of the role is delivering an outstanding experience while ensuring platforms operate reliably, securely, and cost effectively at significant scale. You will play a key role in embedding AI into our products in a way that is practical, responsible, and valuable to the business.Role focusAs a Lead Engineer, you are a senior technical leader who shapes technical direction and engineering excellence across products. You drive system design, set standards, and mentor engineers while remaining hands on with complex problem solving.You will guide the development of large scale systems that support programmatic buying, self service experiences, data products, and AI enabled capabilities.What you will doLead the design, implementation, and evolution of key systemsHands on design and build of complex features and platform capabilitiesSet and uphold technical standards and engineering best practicesGuide engineers through design reviews, mentoring, and hands on deliveryBalance short term delivery with long term technical healthCollaborate with Product, UX, and Data leads to shape technical roadmapsAct as a technical point of contact for cross functional stakeholdersDevelop deep understanding of the Outdoor advertising industry, business strategy, and customer needsFocus on non functional requirements including reliability, scalability, security, and cost effectivenessHow you will behave and actCoach and mentor engineers across teamsProvide constructive feedback that raises overall engineering capabilityLead through ambiguity and provide clarity and directionResolve technical and delivery challenges using sound judgementCommunicate complex technical concepts simply and effectivelyWhat you will bringAt least eight years of software engineering experienceExperience working in ad tech or the advertising industryStrong full stack capabilityProficiency in modern engineering stacks, cloud platforms, and agile ways of workingExperience with APIs, data flows, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoringDeep expertise in system design, cloud architecture, and distributed systemsExperience delivering systems end to end from design through to productionAccountability for products or large scale components with significant user volumes, transactions, or revenueStrong communication skills with the ability to translate business context into technical solutionsA genuine passion for mentoring and raising engineering standardsHow success is measuredDelivery of robust, scalable systems that generate measurable business valueClear technical direction and decision making across squadsImproved delivery velocity and engineering qualityStrong mentoring impact and growth of engineers across teamsConsistent delivery against objectives and key resultsThe technology environmentOur 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 webReact, Next.js, TypeScriptBackend and servicesNode.js, Python, serverless architecturesDatastoresSQL and NoSQL technologies including Postgres and DynamoDBCloud and infrastructureAWS including Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, and S3Infrastructure as Code using TerraformWays of workingAgile delivery, embedded non functional requirements for scale, CI/CD automation, test driven development, observability, and modern DevOps practices