Responsibilities

- 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

Qualifications

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. You thrive in a high energy, autonomous team‑driven environment where you are asked to have the strategic perspective to develop our business. Experience defining integration strategies with third‑party platforms and commercial off‑the‑shelf products. Experience working with stateless, highly transactional end‑user products. Proven ability to design highly scalable, resilient cloud services on AWS. Experience building, modernizing, or migrating complex systems at scale. Extensive professional experience developing customer‑focused, web‑based services using JavaScript, and TypeScript, and other modern programming languages like Rust or Python. Experience establishing knowledge‑sharing patterns and practices in a product organization, including leading cross‑team and organization‑level initiatives. Comfortable working in hybrid, distributed and highly collaborative environments. Strong experience setting technical direction, influencing peers, and driving meaningful change across teams. Proven experience introducing and scaling AI‑assisted engineering practices, such as harness engineering, spec‑driven workflows, or similar approaches. Solid experience contributing in agile, autonomous, and delivery‑focused teams. xqbhyrx Experience from the media or streaming industry.

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📌 Principal Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Viaplay
📍 Barcelona