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We are looking for a Principal Back-End Developer to join our digital team.

The position is based within the award-winning Audio Services development team. The position is working remote (from home) but may require occasional office visits, hot-desking at an office location is always available should the candidate prefer.

The team is high-performing and agile, utilising TDD and peer reviews. Our agile coach ensures that our staff, team and business continually learn and improve.

Our backend developers work alongside front end, full stack, UX specialists, SRE’s and product teams to create the comprehensive digital audio experiences our listeners love. They work across multiple platforms ensuring all customer facing digital systems can adapt and scale when under large loads. Large loads in our case equates to “tens of thousands” of concurrent users across multiple countries around the clock, with bursts into “hundreds of thousands”.
The team is high-performing and agile, utilising TDD and peer reviews. Our agile coach ensures that our staff, team and business continually learn and improve.

The systems are continually evolving to ensure Bauer Media stays at the forefront of the Audio space, the backend developers are tasked and entrusted to deliver the underlying functionality that makes the end customer experience appear slick and frictionless.

Typical duties Include:

• Software product and code oversight
• Able to apply simplification to complex situations and identify the key issues and priorities to be resolved.
• Manage conflict where variations of approach exist.
• Responsible for team-wide design, patterns and code approaches.
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams
• Supervising technical aspects of projects
• Providing on-call support for new and existing applications as required or as requested
• Recommendation of new tools and technologies that can help to increase productivity
• Contribute to design standards and documentation
• Growing and developing senior, mid-weight and junior team members through coaching, mentoring and general guidance of best practices in order to develop world class software development teams
• Be responsible for creative and encouraging a positive working environment for employees from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences
• Prepare and present strategies to CTO for consideration and approval
• Pre-emptive and proactive performance investigation and tuning
• Proactive advice on code-refactoring to reduce complexity and increase supportability
• Fully knows the department domain and the keys parts within it; able to identify areas where historic choices are now a hinderance
• Technical debt ownership, management and reporting
• Instigate and host communities of practice (Internal and External)

Skills and Experience

Candidates should ideally have extensive previous commercial experience working in a back-end developer / full-stack role or environment.

Bauer Media Audio Services are historically a PHP shop (Vanilla, Laravel, Slim) but are well on the way to shifting to Typescript (NestJS) for our backend API’s.

Our API’s are consumed by internal and external clients, maintaining backwards compatibility within them is an important aspect of the craft.

This role is less about the technologies involved but more about the skills and traits of the individual, we are looking for a candidate with:

• High attention to detail

• Team and Individual Mentoring
• Multiple development languages
• Performance pitfalls, of the non-common type
• Performance tuning techniques
• Data safety

In addition to a competitive salary Bauer Media Audio offers each developer the ability to regularly undertake and investigate new technologies. We also offer and encourage all our developer’s personal development time; allowing each developer to pursue technical studies of their own interest.

Bauer Media Audio has a defined career path plan for developers and associated digital roles, this grade sitting between Lead Developer and Senior Principal Developer.

Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
• Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
• Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
• Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
• Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
• Discounted high street vouchers

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.

Belonging at Bauer Mission statement

People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.

What we will offer you

Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.

Our mental health at work

We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.

Learning and Development

As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.

Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.

Bauer Core Values

Passion

We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.

Excellence

Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.

Trust

We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email [email protected] we would love to hear from you.