Engineering Manager

🚀Our mission is to create tech that makes a difference, empowers teams, delights customers, and shapes the media world of tomorrow

We're one of the leading media advertising companies with over 33,000 advertising sites across the UK and EU. As part of the global Bauer Media Group, we're committed to being both a platform for brands and a platform for good. From Netflix, Disney, The National Lottery, Heineken and many more, we advertise for some of the best brands which reach millions of people every day! We don't just sell space, we deliver impact for our clients and value for the communities we serve.

📍London - 2 days a week | 💰 Salary for this role is dependant on your experience, you'll also receive bonus + benefits

About The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you're accountable for people leadership, delivery excellence, and engineering culture. You'll empower your teams to build high-quality systems across our stack and enable the business to deliver advertising products and platforms at scale. It's a super exciting time to join as we move into a new era of advertising!

What You'll Be Doing

Lead, coach, and mentor engineers across all levels while owning hiring, onboarding, retention, and career progression

Foster an inclusive, high-trust team culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and sustainable ways of working

Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of product and platform initiatives by driving Agile practices, managing risks/dependencies, and aligning technical execution with business outcomes

Provide technical oversight and guidance for scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable systems and architectures

Champion engineering excellence and modern practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and secure development

Maintain system reliability and operational sustainability through incident management, post-incident reviews, and engineering health metric tracking

What You'll Bring To The Team

Preferably a full stack/backend background in NodeJS

Significant experience in software engineering, including experience leading engineering teams in agile environments

Proven people management experience with responsibility for coaching, performance, and team development

Strong technical foundations with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and system design discussions

A data-informed and outcome-driven mindset

The ability to simplify complexity and make pragmatic trade-offs

Experience building healthy engineering cultures focused on quality, ownership, and collaboration

What's In It For You

🏖️ 25 paid holidays including bank holidays

🏠 Company Pension Scheme paid up to 8%

🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan

🛡️ Life Insurance and group income protection scheme

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

🤱🏻 Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Cover

We believe in fairness and as an equal opportunities employer we work hard to foster an inclusive environment, a place where you can truly be yourself and be treated fairly. We're interested in what you can do, not just what you've done. Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we'd still love to hear from you! If you need this job description in another format or need any adjustments for your application/interview process, please let us know at careers@bauermediaoutdoor.com