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 iOS developer in our Stockholm office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?
The Role
We are looking for an engineer to help build and evolve our ads & monetization experience across mobile video and streaming products, focusing on our iOS and tvOS platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the user experience while also 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 ads 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
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:
We are looking for a passionate and experienced developer with a genuine interest in mobile application 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. In order to thrive in this role, we do believe you’ll have some experience in the following:
3+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with a strong focus on building and scaling applications
Experience developing customer-focused products
Strong expertise in Swift SwiftUI and UIKit
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
Curiosity about AI, with the initiative to navigate ambiguity and drive change
It’s a bonus if you have:
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 Apple media playback frameworks, DRM, analytics, experimentation, or observability
Experience working with commercial, ad operations, or monetisation stakeholders
Experience with Android development and an interest in working across mobile platforms
Why join us
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…