Viaplay Group · Stockholm, SE ·
Android developer on Viaplay's Ads & Monetisation team, building and maintaining ad-related features in the streaming app — ad playback, tracking/measurement, and CSAI/SSAI integrations across live, linear and on-demand video. Core stack: Kotlin/Java, Android frameworks, ExoPlayer/Media3 and ad tech like VAST/VMAP.
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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.
Viaplay is accelerating our growth on Advertising & Monetisation with sharper focus to bring measurable, attractive, modern advertising formats to the Nordic market cross all our platforms. Right now, we’re searching for an Android Developer in our Stockholm office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?
We are looking for an engineer to help build and evolve our ads & monetisation experience across mobile video and streaming products, focusing on our Android platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the user experience while solving complex technical challenges around playback, performance, reliability, and advertising delivery. You will work in a product team, collaborating with other teams, developers, backend engineers, product managers, designers, data/analytics specialists, and commercial stakeholders and partners, to deliver high quality ads experiences for our users.
What your day might look like
Design, build, and maintain features on our platform, related to ads monetisation in a modern mobile app
Work with tracking and measurement of ads, and ad decisioning integrations
Contribute to smooth, reliable ad experiences across live, linear, and on-demand streaming use cases
Collaborate with backend and platform teams on integrations involving client-side and server-side ad insertion workflows
Improve app performance, stability, observability, and user experience around ad playback
Participate in technical discovery, architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, and release activities
Help troubleshoot complex production issues related to playback, ads, analytics, and device-specific behaviour
We are looking for a passionate and experienced developer with a genuine interest in Android development. If you have experience in working with other clients or TV applications, we would be blown away.
You thrive in a high energy, team-driven environment where you love getting stuff done, and having fun while you are doing it.
Successful candidates also meet all or some of the following:
5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with a strong focus on building and scaling Android applications
Experience developing customer-focused products
Strong expertise in Kotlin, Java, or modern Android frameworks
Good understanding of architecture, performance optimisation, testing, debugging, and maintainable code design.
Experience working in complex mobile user journeys and if there is experience with video playback, streaming, media apps, we would be blown away.
It’s a bonus if you have:
Insight into Jetpack Compose and the future of Android UI development
Experience with advertising technology in media streaming, such as TCF, SSAI, CSAI, VAST, VMAP, ad SDKs, ad tracking, or measurement
Experience from AVOD, FAST, live streaming, OTT, or other ad-supported video products
Knowledge of Android media playback frameworks, ExoPlayer/Media3, DRM, analytics, experimentation, or observability
Experience working with commercial, ad operations, or monetisation stakeholders
You will have the opportunity to work on a business-critical area where you directly contribute to product quality, viewer experience, and sustainable revenue growth. You will join a team where technical excellence, experimentation, and collaboration are valued, and where your work can have visible impact at scale.
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.
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.
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