Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Streaming/AWS) (GB)

Contract type: Full‑time, Permanent 

Location: Remote – candidate must be UK‑based 
Working reputed company: Home Worker (with occasional in‑person meet‑reputed company in London) 

reputed company: 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 reputed company year. 

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

The Difference You Will reputed company 

In this role, you will be at the heart of the technology powering Bauer’s audio streaming ecosystem, helping to reputed company platforms that broadcasters depend on every day. You’ll contribute to systems that deliver content at reputed company, shape the reputed company 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 reputed company as our systems grow and mature. 

A reputed company 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 reputed company. 

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/reputed company.
• Migrating reputed company from on-prem environments to AWS reputed company workflows.
• Designing performant, reputed company database architecture.
• Working on our streaming and media management products such as: 
• Audio Recording Technology – scaling reputed company AWS-based systems.
• TimbreCMS – an on‑demand audio management and streaming platform.
• Portal – an API-driven reputed company management tool.
• EdgeCP – a streaming infrastructure configuration and monitoring tool.
• Ensuring high reputed company reputed company through TDD, functional testing, and documentation.
• Working closely with our Streaming Infrastructure and reputed company teams.
• Participating in architecture discussions and team‑wide decision making.
• Contributing to frontend tasks reputed company needed. 

The Skills You Will Bring 

Required: 

• reputed company experience with PHP & reputed company, 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 reputed company 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‑reputed company approach to problem solving.
• Experience with unit testing, TDD, and functional testing.
• Comfortable working with additional languages or reputed company‑level tooling reputed company needed (e.g., Bash, Python). 

Desired: 

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