Engineering Manager

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

Were one of the leading media advertising companies with over 33000 advertising sites across the UK and EU. As part of the global Bauer Media Group were 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 dont 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 youll also receive bonus benefits

About The Role

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

What Youll 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 Youll 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.

Whats 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. Were interested in what you can do not just what youve done. Even if you dont meet every requirement listed wed 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

Required Experience:

Manager