Java Lead Developer

At Nordic Entertainment Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production companies. From live sports and films to music and our own original shows, our purpose is to tell stories, touch lives and expand worlds. We’re now launching our Viaplay streaming service in a wide range of new markets and aiming to become the international streaming challenger. As a Nordic company with a global perspective and clear values, we’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey.

Do you have an eye for integrations? Are you skilled in Java development? Do you have zeal about team evolvement and are the natural leader in a team? Great! We are looking for a Lead Developer of a backend team, with a focus on integrations to join our team here in Stockholm.

The position

As a Lead Developer in our well versed and experienced Media Team you’ll be working in the heartbeat of entertainment, focusing on integrations. You will be the tech leader of a team of five team members where you, except from being a senior developer, also be a front figure for the team, the coach, and the mentor.

You will together with the team make sure that our core business works flawless when it comes to delivering content to the end user. 


The journey ahead

Our mission is to foresee to develop the best tools available that not only manages incoming content, and supports our internal transcoding- and publication flows, but also provides ingest-, asset- and content management to the editorial teams and end consumer clients for both Viaplay and Viafree.

- We work in an agile environment (using Scrum) and primarily use Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket (with Git) to support our needs.

- We work in a hybrid cloud environment, deploying not only to our on-prem private cloud (OpenStack) but also to AWS.

- Our architecture mainly consists of dockerized micro services that are orchestrated in a workflow engine (Camunda), where each business case translates to a set of external micro services described in a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) flow.

- The individual micro services are written in a wide range of technologies, eg. Java (Eclipse MicroProfile, Spring Boot and Apache Camel), Python, Go, Node.js, but we mainly work with Java 8 to Java 11.
- So if you are up for opportunity where you get to involve yourself a lot of cool and different tech, we have what you are looking for!


What we are looking for

We are looking for a innovative and experienced senior developer with a genuine 
interest in software development and technical leadership. We believe that you are currently working in a role as Senior backend developer or technical lead, and have experience in working with complex technical problems. You thrive in a high-energy, autonomous team-focused environment where you are asked to have a strategic perspective to develop our business. 


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Ideal candidates also meet the following requirements:

- You have a degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar with at least 6+ years professional experience.

- You have solid experience in Java backend development working in an agile environment.

- You are excited about and motivated by continuous improvement with a quality-oriented mindset and practises.

- You are interested in taking overall ownership of technical design, complexity assessment, test and deployment and has the profound view of the product development and suggests the best ways to develop having in mind the final market goal.

- You develop engineering solutions that are aligned with technical- and product long-term visions following the services throughout the full product lifecycle.

- You have an intrinsic motivation for learning and self-development and have the ability to develop, and mentor the developers in the team to have a common understanding of the team’s achievements

You also have technical experiences in:

- Using common enterprise integration patterns (message handling routing, transformation of data).
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins/GitLab or similar
- Experience in consuming and creating REST-based APIs.
- Experience in Unix/Linux environment.
- Experience in NoSQL databases (preferably MongoDB).
- Experience in message queues


Bonus requirements that will make you stand out from the rest:

- Experience of working in a similar context by managing media content
- Experience in workflow engines such as Camunda or similar
- Experience in integration frameworks, such as Apache Camel.
- Experience in using Docker.
- Experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- Experience in Eclipse MicroProfile, Spring Boot and Go.


What we offer you

Our HQ is in Stockholm, but our market is the Nordics. You will become part of an amazing company with great people, content, and culture. Some of the benefits we offer you when working here are:

- A hybrid and flexible work model to make it able to work part-time remotely. 

- An agile approach, freedom to try out new things and independent decision-making by our autonomous teams. 

- A place to grow and learn from our mistakes. We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks, pair programming and mob programming. 

- An innovative environment with hack days two times a year. 

- An international and diverse environment with people from all over the world working here. We have 35+ different nationalities in the office coming from different backgrounds. 

- An attractive offer with a beneficial occupational pension plan, insurance plan, health care, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible work hours and parental leave pay lift. 





Hit Play on your career!

If this feels like your kind of challenge, please apply, and attach your CV and cover letter. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Sonam Baldota at sonam.baldota@nentgroup.com .

Nordic Entertainment Group AB (publ.) (NENT Group) is committed to equality and diversity and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and marital status. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be - so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know ...