Frontend Developer

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.

We're looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we're searching for a Frontend Developer in our Stockholm office –are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?

The Role

As a Frontend Developer in our Sports-and Ads Platforms team, you'll work on improving and developing the frontends of our internal-and partner tools. Your contributions will directly influence the ease, efficiency and quality of the platforms we are building and maintaining. You'll contribute to building and refining our frontends of the platforms, as well as supporting the users of our platforms having a seamless user experience.

We're modernizing our services in and around the platform, to enhance scalability and performance, and you'll play a big part in contributing to this transformation. With a modern serverless architecture on AWS built using languages like Java as well as Golang on the backends, and React on the Frontends, you'll thrive in an innovative and forward-thinking tech environment.

You'll join a newly formed platform team of 6 developers, one Ad tech Specialist, Product Manager and Engineering manager, all working in our Stockholm office.

Here's what your daily challenges might look like:

Take ownership of technical design, complexity assessment, development, testing, and deployment

Collaborate with your team members and-or other teams transforming our platform into modern solutions

Participate in weekly guild meetings, contributing to best practices, long-term strategy, and maintaining technical excellence

Continuously invest in your personal growth and skill development

What we're looking for

We understand you may feel confident ticking certain boxes more than others and that's why we always keep an open mind in our recruitment process. But, in order to thrive in this role, we do believe you'll have at least some experience in the following:

Deep knowledge with 5+ years of experience in TypeScript

Good understanding of React

Team player with a dedication to testing, code review, and other quality-oriented practices

Team player with a dedication to testing, code review, and other quality-oriented practices

Curious and motivated by collaborating with and supporting other teams

It's a bonus if you have:

Familiarity with modern frameworks like Vite

Familiarity with UI component libraries like MUI

Knowledge in UX

Experience developing and maintaining services in cloud environments, preferably AWS

Experience in

What we offer you We've 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 including wellness allowance.

Flexibility that works. We follow a hybrid model with at least three days a week in the office, giving you the best mix of collaboration and focus time.

A safe space to grow and up-skill. Our learning culture puts you in the driver's seat of your own development.

An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This week-long 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 don't send us your application via email because we won't be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position. Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page or follow us on Instagram We're only ever a few clicks away.