Android Developer – Ads Platform

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 are looking for an engineer to help build and evolve our ads & monetisation experience across mobile video and streaming products focusing on our Android platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the user experience while solving complex technical challenges around playback performance reliability and advertising delivery. You will work in a product team collaborating with other teams developers backend engineers product managers designers data/analytics specialists and commercial stakeholders and partners to deliver high quality ads experiences for our users.

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 to 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

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

• 5 years of relevant software engineering experience with a strong focus on building and scaling Android applications

• Experience developing customer-focused products

• Strong expertise in Kotlin Java or modern Android frameworks

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

• Experience working in complex mobile user journeys and if there is experience with video playback streaming media apps we would be blown away.

Its a bonus if you have:

• Insight into Jetpack Compose and the future of Android UI development

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

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

• Knowledge of Android media playback frameworks ExoPlayer/Media3 DRM analytics experimentation or observability

• Experience working with commercial ad operations or monetisation stakeholders

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

• Weve 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.

• 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 drivers 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.

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 dont send us your application via email because we wont be able to accept it. We do however welcome any questions you may have about this particular position.

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