Junior Software Engineer

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