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 looking for a Senior Backend AI Engineer to join our AI Lab in Stockholm and help explore how small, multidisciplinary teams can build useful products with AI.
The role
You’ll work closely with product, design and engineering colleagues, turning opportunities into working products and validating them with users.
AI will be a core part of how you build and deliver, from exploration through development, testing and validation. You’ll help improve these ways of working and share what you learn with the wider organisation. You’ll also integrate AI driven capabilities into products where they address a real user need.
Backend engineering will be your strongest area. You’ll design services, connect systems and make software reliable in production. You’ll be expected to contribute beyond your specialism: like helping shape an interaction, building a prototype, contributing to frontend development or testing a hypothesis with users.
That breadth is central to how the team works. We’re exploring how far a small team can go when people combine depth in their own craft with practical contributions across disciplines. You’ll bring your engineering judgement into product and design discussions and learn from colleagues as you take shared responsibility for the result.
The team starts with a lab approach: focused scope, short feedback loops and room to experiment. As we learn what works, the aim is to evolve into an established structure with ongoing product responsibilities. You’ll help shape that journey and take care of the products as they develop.
What your day might look like
Turn agreed product scope into working products
Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and integrations.
Contribute beyond backend through frontend development, prototyping, product exploration or validation with users.
Apply and improve advanced AI-assisted workflows across development, testing and validation.
Integrate AI driven capabilities where they add value to the product.
Work with product and design to use data, user insights and hypotheses to guide implementation and evaluate outcomes.
Improve security, performance, reliability and maintainability as products develop.
Contribute to deployment, monitoring, maintenance and operation, taking responsibility for the software you deliver.
Share knowledge and help colleagues move work forward across role boundaries.
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:
You’ve used AI across substantial parts of product delivery, beyond individual coding generation. You can explain your contribution, how you verified the result and what you learned.
Technical depth: Strong backend engineering expertise in Rust, Node.js/TypeScript, with a willingness to work across languages as the product requires. You bring experience in service and data design, APIs and integrations, and can make architecture trade-offs and deliver reliable, secure software using automated testing, debugging and production observability.
Practical breadth: Experience contributing beyond backend engineering, combined with curiosity and a willingness to develop further across disciplines. You can show how you’ve helped move a product forward through frontend development, prototyping, design exploration, testing and validation with users.
AI-native delivery: Experience using advanced workflows, such as agent-based or specification-driven development. You can structure work for AI, provide context,…