Principal Engineer - Smart TV

At Viaplay Group we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services radio networks and TV channels. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives but also expanding worlds.

Were looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now were searching for a Principal Engineer (Smart TV)in our Stockholmoffice are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change

The role

As a Principal Engineer (Smart TV) at Viaplay you will be contributing handson by engineering a scalable and resilient framework and platform in Javascript as well as driving the overall technical vision and direction of our platform. In your role you will ensure we develop the platform to meet the challenges of a continuously evolving product developing strategies to battle complexity and ensuring efficiency. With your passion for technical leadership and willingness to act as role model for others you will be an advocate for the developer community and a mentor to engineers within your domain.

You will join an autonomous metricsdriven team of experts to deliver engineering solutions aligned with longterm technical and product visions. We build our entire product inhouse with apps in native and cross platform languages. We strongly believe that being on the edge of things when it comes to technology is crucial always keeping ourselves up to date and constantly challenging the status quo.

What were looking for

We are looking for a passionate and experienced developer with a genuine interest in software engineering and leadership. We believe that you are currently working in a role as Principal Engineer Technical Lead Technical Director or Technical Architect and have experience of working with a variety of challenges requiring solving complex technical problems. You thrive in a high energy teamdriven environment where you are asked to have the strategic perspective to develop our business.

Successful candidates also meet the following requirements:

• Extensive worklife experience developing customer focused webbased services using JavaScript and preferably also React Native
• Excellent technical leadership skills setting direction and enacting change among peers
• Experience working with a stateless and highly transactional end user product
• Solid experience of working in an agile environment

Bonus requirements that will make you stand out from the rest:

• Experience working with HTMLbased Smart TV applications
• Experience from the media or streaming industry
• Experience from knowledgesharing patterns and practices in a product organization
• Experience of integration strategies with 3rd parties and COTS products

What we offer you

• Weve got you covered! 30 days of paid vacation every year an attractive pension and insurance scheme and generous parental leave pay lift.
• Your wellbeing matters. We provide you with various wellbeing initiatives includingwellness allowance.
• A safe space to grow and upskill. Our learning culture puts you in the drivers seat of your own development.
• An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This weeklong initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented either in our product or our ways of working.
• Entertainment is what we love and entertainment is what we do. So unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product including serier & viewing events new release movie rentals linear channels and more.

Hit play today

If this feels like your kind of challenge make sure you apply by attaching your CV here you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please dont send us your application via email because we wont be able to accept it. We do however welcome any questions you may have about this particular position.

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