Principal Web Engineer
Viaplay Group Sweden AB / Webbmasterjobb / Stockholm
2025-03-04
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hela Sverige 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 Principal Web Engineer in our Stockholm office -are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?
The role
As a Principal Web Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and strategy for our web platform, ensuring we build scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.
You will split your time being hands-on within a cross-functional team, collaborate closely with the web guild and the other platform guilds to ensure best practices and long-term goals. Your role will be both strategic and hands-on, contributing to key architectural decisions while mentoring and supporting other engineers across teams. You will play a crucial part in shaping how we develop, deploy, and maintain our web platform to ensure a seamless experience for millions of users.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and lead the technical strategy for our web platform
Align teams across the organization to ensure consistency in architecture, frameworks, and tooling
Write and review code, contributing directly to both feature development within a team and platform-wide improvements, ensuring high-quality and scalable solutions
Drive best practices, reducing technical debt and improving maintainability
Ensure web performance and accessibility are considered at every step
Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration
Work closely with other Principal Engineers, Guild leads, Product Managers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities
What we're looking for
We're looking for an experienced and visionary web engineer who thrives on technical challenges and has a passion for building scalable platforms.
More specifically, you have:
Extensive experience developing customer-focused web-based services
Deep expertise in modern web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js)
A strong background in frontend architecture and performance optimization
Experience working with multiple CMS solutions and a strategic mindset on platform unification
Technical leadership experience, setting direction and enacting change
The ability to align teams and create a shared technical vision
Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers
A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and DevOps practices
It's a bonus if you have:
Experience working with video streaming platforms
Familiarity with server-side rendering and edge computing
Experience integrating third-party CMS and personalization tools
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.
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.
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Arbetsgivare Viaplay Group Sweden AB (org.nr 556304-7041),
https://www.viaplaygroup.com/ Arbetsplats Viaplay Group
Jobbnummer 9201443