United Kingdom · Hybrid
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life You’ll be joining our Digital Quality Assurance team, part of Technology Advisory within Bauer Media Group. We sit at the heart of Bauer’s digital platforms, supporting Rayo – our un…
Skills: QA Automation, Backend Engineering, RESTful Architectures, Golang, Contract Driven Testing
Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Contract Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation
Basildon, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Contract Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Contract Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation
London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Contract Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation
Basildon, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Negotiation, Commercial Awareness, Stakeholder Management
Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation, Stakeholder Management
Harlow, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Negotiation, Commercial Awareness, Stakeholder Management
Colchester, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation, Stakeholder Management
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Commercial Awareness, Negotiation, Stakeholder Management
London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations a…
Skills: Customer Relationship Management, Contract Management, Commercial Negotiation, Stakeholder Management, Data Literacy
Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany · On-site
Die Mediengruppe Magdeburg sowie die Mediengruppe Mitteldeutsche Zeitung sind mit ihren angehörenden Organisationen Teil der Bauer Media Group und zählen zu den großen, traditionsreichen Medienhäusern Deutschlands. Beide…
Skills: Machine Loading, Packaging, Palletizing, German Language (A2), Physical Stamina
Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life You will be joining The Central Audio Communications Team who lead the communications strategy for our audio business across nine European markets. We help Bauer Media Audio speak wi…
Skills: Writing, Editing, Content Creation, Social Media Management, Event Support
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · On-site
$50k–$58k/yr
Are you a proactive and commercially aware Operations Manager? Do you have a proven track record of successfully managing both onsite & remote teams? Are you ready for your next challenge, with an innovative company at t…
Skills: Operations Management, Team Leadership, Budget Management, Project Management, Operational Planning
Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Launch your career in media sales with meaningful campaigns and a clear path for growth. We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Audio Sales Coordinator to join our Agency Sales Team in London. If you have a pa…
Skills: Customer Service, Media Sales, Communication Skills, Negotiation, Numeracy
Bristol, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$32k–$36k/yr
Are you a NEBOSH qualified Health & Safety Advisor looking for your next challenge? Do you possess the ability to ensure Health & Safety requirements are met, whilst sustaining good working relationships with your collea…
Skills: Health And Safety Auditing, Risk Management, RIDDOR Reporting, Policy Implementation, MS Office
Dartford, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$32k–$36k/yr
Are you a NEBOSH qualified Health & Safety Advisor looking for your next challenge? Do you possess the ability to ensure Health & Safety requirements are met, whilst sustaining good working relationships with your collea…
Skills: Health And Safety Auditing, Risk Management, RIDDOR Reporting, Policy Implementation, MS Office
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$32k–$36k/yr
Are you a NEBOSH qualified Health & Safety Advisor looking for your next challenge? Do you possess the ability to ensure Health & Safety requirements are met, whilst sustaining good working relationships with your collea…
Skills: Health & Safety Auditing, Risk Management, RIDDOR Reporting, Policy Implementation, MS Office
Sawtry, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$32k–$36k/yr
Are you a NEBOSH qualified Health & Safety Advisor looking for your next challenge? Do you possess the ability to ensure Health & Safety requirements are met, whilst sustaining good working relationships with your collea…
Skills: Health And Safety Auditing, Risk Management, RIDDOR Reporting, Policy Implementation, MS Office
Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life You’ll be joining The Commercial Marketing team who sit at the heart of Bauer Media Advertising, creating commercially driven ideas, campaigns and experiences across audio, publishin…
Skills: Graphic Design, Layout, Typography, Illustration, Conceptual Creative
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Lead the backend quality strategy by embedding testability and resilience into architectural designs and API development. Drive the adoption of contract-driven testing, schema-first development, and automated quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
Requires deep expertise in technical QA automation, RESTful architectures, and proficiency in Golang or similar object-oriented languages. Must have experience with event-driven architectures, AWS, and the effective use of AI tooling for code generation and refinement.
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life
You’ll be joining our Digital Quality Assurance team, part of Technology Advisory within Bauer Media Group. We sit at the heart of Bauer’s digital platforms, supporting Rayo – our unified audio and radio experience across web, mobile, smart speakers and backend services. We’re a collaborative, friendly, remote-first engineering team that believes in high standards, strong principles and continuous improvement. We work closely with backend platform engineers, frontend teams, product managers and architecture to ensure quality is built in from day one and not tested in at the end. Our culture is flat, inclusive, and people-first. We value curiosity, healthy debate, mentoring, and shared ownership, alongside having fun together (whether that’s Music Fridays, team workshops, or after work social gatherings when we’re together in person).
The difference you will make
This is a new principal role created to raise the bar for backend quality across our platform. You’ll play a critical role in driving a shift-left quality culture, embedding testability, resilience and contract integrity directly into how our systems are designed and built. Acting as a technical authority, you’ll partner with backend engineers, product managers, SRE/DevOps, and architects to ensure our platform can evolve safely at scale, handling millions of requests while remaining reliable and future-proof. Your impact will be felt not just through automated tests but through architectural influence, better design decisions, faster feedback, and a more confident engineering organisation.
Your role
You’ll be the Principal QA Engineer for our backend platform, owning quality strategy across APIs, services and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities include:
• Drive and lead architectural design reviews by partnering with developers and PMs during Epic breakdown to embed Testability by Design.
• Lead the strategy for Contract Driven Testing, ensuring services can evolve independently without breaking dependencies.
• Advocate for and enforce Schema-First development, treating OpenAPI/Swagger specifications as the source of truth and validating them automatically.
• Design and maintain a multi-layered automation strategy with a focus on API and service-level testing, and targeted E2E validation using Playwright/TypeScript.
• Partner closely with developers to mature BDD practices within our Agile workflows.
• Embed automated regression suites and quality gates directly into CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to test continuously.
• Own load and performance testing strategies to ensure backend resilience under high traffic and support other teams (Web, Mobile) where needed.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to integrate observability (logging, tracing, metrics) into the quality strategy using tools such as OpenTelemetry or Datadog.
• Leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate boilerplate and test generation, while retaining ownership of architecture, logic, and code quality.
• Formalise QA practices and mentor engineers across the organisation on modern, AI-assisted, automation-first testing.
The skills you will bring
Required:
• Proven experience in a highly technical QA Automation or Backend Engineering role operating in a shift-left environment.
• Deep understanding of RESTful architectures, with experience validating JSON Schemas or GraphQL types at the contract level.
• Proficiency in Golang or another object-oriented language with the ability to ramp up quickly on Go.
• Experience testing asynchronous and event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, SQS), with knowledge of data consistency and resilience patterns.
• Strong experience working within Agile/Scrum, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Demonstrated expertise in using AI tooling effectively, with the engineering depth to critique, debug, and refine AI-generated code whilst coaching others to do the same.
• Strong track record testing complex APIs, backend architectures, and cloud-hosted environments (AWS).
• Proven ability to build, maintain, and troubleshoot automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, in collaboration with DevOps teams.
• A team-first mindset with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desired:
• Experience running load testing with k6.
• Experience transitioning teams toward an AI and automation-first quality model.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Working Pattern/Location
This is a full-time, permanent, remote-first role within the UK with occasional in-person collaboration (approximately 8 times per year) either in our Manchester or London offices. We welcome applications from across the UK, ideally residing within or nearby those cities. We value flexibility, trust and balance, and focus on outcomes rather than where you work from.
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
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected] we would love to hear from you.
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offer covers print and online Publishing, Audio broadcasting and entertainment, Out of Home advertising, and Investments in other media related sectors. We are one of Europe’s largest Publishers, with almost 500 million copies sold each year. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines and TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of Europe’s most popular digital and print publishing brands. Our Audio business operates more than 150 radio and podcast brands, reaching over 61 million listeners every week. Bauer Media Outdoor is one of Europe’s leading Out of Home advertising businesses, with more than 100,000 advertising panels. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term with a consumer first mindset. Our workforce of over 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives. Our mission is to entertain, serve and inspire our customers, making each day a little better and supporting them as they organise their lives and discover more. Our Purpose is to enrich everyday life. This Purpose is our reason for being in business. It’s why our consumers buy our products and services. It’s why we come to work every day. It’s at the heart of everything we do and what unites us. Our group-wide company values are Trust, Passion, Excellence and Entrepreneurship. These four values underpin our corporate identity and culture. They are our guide for how we want to work and grow together. https://www.bauermedia.com/imprint https://www.bauermedia.com/data-privacy
Offices: Burchardstraße 11, Hamburg, 20077, DE · 75 Hampstead Road, The Lantern, London, England NW1 2PL, GB · Lynch Wood, Media House, Peterborough, England PE2 6, GB · Tallberginkatu 1 c, Helsinki, Südfinnland 00180, FI · Gjörwellsgatan 30, Box 34108 (Main Office), Stockholm, Stockholms Län 112 60, SE
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offer covers print and online Publishing, Audio broadcasting and entertainment, Out of Home advertising, and Investments in other media related sectors. We are one of Europe’s largest Publishers, with almost 500 million copies sold each year. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines and TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of Europe’s most popular digital and print publishing brands. Our Audio business operates more than 150 radio and podcast brands, reaching over 61 million listeners every week. Bauer Media Outdoor is one of Europe’s leading Out of Home advertising businesses, with more than 100,000 advertising panels. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term with a consumer first mindset. Our workforce of over 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives. Our mission is to entertain, serve and inspire our customers, making each day a little better and supporting them as they organise their lives and discover more. Our Purpose is to enrich everyday life. This Purpose is our reason for being in business. It’s why our consumers buy our products and services. It’s why we come to work every day. It’s at the heart of everything we do and what unites us. Our group-wide company values are Trust, Passion, Excellence and Entrepreneurship. These four values underpin our corporate identity and culture. They are our guide for how we want to work and grow together. https://www.bauermedia.com/imprint https://www.bauermedia.com/data-privacy
Offices: Burchardstraße 11, Hamburg, 20077, DE · 75 Hampstead Road, The Lantern, London, England NW1 2PL, GB · Lynch Wood, Media House, Peterborough, England PE2 6, GB · Tallberginkatu 1 c, Helsinki, Südfinnland 00180, FI · Gjörwellsgatan 30, Box 34108 (Main Office), Stockholm, Stockholms Län 112 60, SE
