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 Engineer in our Barcelona office – are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?

The Role

As a Principal Engineer at Viaplay, you will be contributing hands-on by engineering scalable and resilient back-end systems in Node.js and Rust running in AWS, as well as driving the overall technical vision and direction of our platform. In your role, you will ensure we develop the platform to meet the challenges of a continuously evolving product, developing strategies to battle complexity and ensuring efficiency. With your passion for technical leadership and willingness to act as role model for others, you will be an advocate for the developer community and a mentor to engineers within your domain.





You will join an autonomous metrics driven team of experts to deliver engineering solutions aligned with long-term technical and product visions. We build our entire product in-house, with apps in native languages and a microservices backend on AWS, transitioning toward an event-driven, serverless architecture. We strongly believe that continuously learning, adopting new tools such as AI where they add value, and challenging the status quo are crucial to succeeding in the dynamic environment of an entertainment company.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a passionate and experienced developer with a genuine interest in software engineering and leadership. We believe that you are currently working in a role as Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, Technical Director or Technical Architect, and have experience of working with a variety of challenges requiring solving complex technical problems.

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📌 Principal Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Viaplay Group
📍 Barcelona