Frontend Developer – Ads Platform

Viaplay Group; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 750,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

30 days vacation

Wellbeing allowance

Learning culture

Hack Days

Viaplay access

Job summary

Viaplay Group in Stockholm is seeking a frontend developer to build and evolve our ads monetisation experience across the TV app. You will work closely with product, design, and backend teams to ship reliable ad experiences for live, on-demand, and linear content.

The role emphasizes performance, experimentation, and user-centric design, with a hybrid work model and three days in the office. Prior TV app experience and strong HTML/JavaScript skills are valued, along with collaboration across

Qualifications

• Experience developing customer-focused web-based services, using HTML/JavaScript.
• Experience working with a state-less and highly transactional end user product.
• Good understanding of architecture, performance optimisation, testing, debugging, and maintainable code design.
• Experience working with video playback, streaming, media apps, or complex mobile user journeys.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
• A pragmatic engineering mindset with attention to reliability, quality, and user experience.

Responsibilities

• 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 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

Skills

HTML/JavaScript

TV applications

Performance optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Ad tech experience

Job description

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 a Frontend Developer (Smart TV) in our Stockholm office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?

The Role

We are looking for a frontend developer to help build and evolve our ads & monetisation experience across mobile video and streaming products, focusing on our TV application. 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 cross-functional product team, collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across engineering, product, design, data, and commercial teams to deliver high-quality ad experiences.

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 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

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a passionate and experienced developer with a genuine interest in frontend development. If you have experience working with 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:

• Experience developing customer-focused web-based services, using HTML/JavaScript

• Experience working with a state-less and highly transactional end user product.

• Good understanding of architecture, performance optimisation, testing, debugging, and maintainable code design

• Experience working with video playback, streaming, media apps, or complex mobile user journeys

• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical trade-offs clearly

• A pragmatic engineering mindset with attention to reliability, quality, and user experience

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Experience with advertising technology in media streaming, such as SSAI, CSAI, VAST, VMAP, ad SDKs, ad tracking, or measurement

• Experience from AVOD, FAST, live streaming, OTT, or other ad-supported video products

• Experience working with commercial, ad operations, or monetisation stakeholders

• You value collaboration, inclusive communication, and continuous improvement

Why join us

You will have the opportunity to work in 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 a visible impact on scale.

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 includingwellness 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.