Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Streaming/AWS)

Contract type: Full‑time, Permanent

Location: Remote – candidate must be UK‑based

Working pattern: Home Worker (with occasional in‑person meet‑ups in London)

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You’ll be joining SharpStream – Bauer’s audio streaming specialists – a small, high‑performing team building and operating a market‑leading distribution network for live and on‑demand audio. We support global broadcasters and podcasters by delivering billions of listening hours each year.

You’ll work closely with a passionate team of engineers, infrastructure specialists, and customer success partners who collaborate tightly, share knowledge openly, and are united by a mission to deliver audio reliably to millions of listeners worldwide.

The Difference You Will Make

In this role, you will be at the heart of the technology powering Bauer’s audio streaming ecosystem, helping to evolve platforms that broadcasters depend on every day. You’ll contribute to systems that deliver content at scale, shape the future of our audio recording and compliance tools, and take ownership of products used both internally and by our customers.

Your work will directly influence how publishers deliver, monetise, and analyse their audio – and you’ll have the autonomy to drive meaningful technical decisions as our systems grow and mature.

A standout candidate is someone who has experience with broadcast or streaming media technologies. This could include audio or video streaming, live or on-demand systems, or tooling such as Liquidsoap, Icecast, FFmpeg, or similar pipelines. We’re especially interested in experience working with encoding, transcoding, metadata, and media workflows at scale.

Your Role

You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure that power SharpStream’s streaming and content management platforms.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Building and improving backend services using PHP/Laravel.
• Migrating projects from on-prem environments to AWS native workflows.
• Designing performant, scalable database architecture.
• Working on our streaming and media management products such as:
• Audio Recording Technology – scaling core AWS-based systems.
• TimbreCMS – an on‑demand audio management and streaming platform.
• Portal – an API-driven stream management tool.
• EdgeCP – a streaming infrastructure configuration and monitoring tool.
• Ensuring high code quality through TDD, functional testing, and documentation.
• Working closely with our Streaming Infrastructure and Customer Success teams.
• Participating in architecture discussions and team‑wide decision making.
• Contributing to frontend tasks when needed.

The Skills You Will Bring

Required:

• Professional experience with PHP & Laravel, plus strong knowledge of SOLID/DRY principles.
• Experience working in a stakeholder‑led environment with strong communication skills.
• Strong understanding of database design, indexing, and performance optimisation.
• Practical experience operating AWS production workloads (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, SQS).
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerisation across development and production.
• Experience in media, broadcast, or streaming technologies (audio/video pipelines, encoding, metadata, Liquidsoap, Icecast, FFmpeg, or similar).
• A pragmatic, delivery‑focused approach to problem solving.
• Experience with unit testing, TDD, and functional testing.
• Comfortable working with additional languages or lower‑level tooling when needed (e.g., Bash, Python).

Desired:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Vue.js, Tailwind, Bootstrap, or Inertia for frontend work.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.