Senior Backend AI Engineer

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.

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.

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.

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, evaluate the resulting software and take accountability for what reaches production.

• Product experience: Experience in a product organisation and a cross-functional team with product managers and designers. You

use data and user insights to test hypotheses, validate value and take shared responsibility for outcomes after release.

You bring approaches we can learn from and can demonstrate where AI has improved your delivery, as well as where it has required

more care. You are comfortable challenging existing practices and helping the team test better ones.

An opportunity to help shape how Viaplay builds products with AI. You’ll bring backend depth, work across disciplines and see how

your contribution influences both the products we deliver and the way the team develops.

You’ll join at a stage where there is room to experiment and help establish process and practices that can benefit the wider

organisation.

• We’ve got you covered! 30 days of paid vacation every year, an attractive pension and insurance scheme, and generous parental

leave pay lift.

• 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.

• 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.

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