Software Engineer - Applied Machine Learning team

About Nordic Entertainment Group

Streaming services, radio networks, TV and production companies. It's our mission to create compelling stories that reach beyond media outlets and touch people's lives.

Position

You will work in the Applied Machine Learning team with other Data Scientists and ML Engineers who share knowledge and experience in researching and developing data products. You love seeing things go into production and love the idea of enabling on-point recommendations that are available whenever and wherever. You enjoy CI/CD processes, maintaining services, and the software development lifecycle.

The challenge ahead

• We offer you the opportunity to play a tactical role in a rapidly evolving industry. Streaming is changing the way media is consumed and Viaplay is one of the leading actors in northern Europe. Machine learning is increasingly playing a central role in scaling personalization
• You will be able to use and develop your software engineering expertise to make data product development faster, simpler and efficient. Also, your success in this role will allow machine learning to serve as a core service in all parts of our streaming products 
• Our technology stack offers great opportunities to showcase and develop your software engineering skills. You will work on AWS for computation and storage, Node.js for microservices and backend, and Python to breathe life to our cloud-based data products

Your qualification

The digital media market is at the forefront of the data revolution and we expect you to want to contribute to that journey with curiosity, creativity, a business mind and commitment.

Successful candidates also meet the following requirements:

• High competence in Node.js and understanding of REST APIs 
• 2+ years working experience applying solid software engineering best practices for production-grade applications
• Academic degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Strong communicator and listener
• Affinity towards teaming up with other curious minds to tackle engineering challenges
• Familiarity with Python and SQL. Scala is an extra plus 
• Knowledge of Spark and other distributed computing paradigms in a cloud environment, such as AWS
• Interest in developing CI/CD processes

What we offer

• Freedom to try out new things and independent decision-making by our autonomous teams
• We build everything in-house with cutting edge technologies where test-driven development and continuous deployments are central in the deployment process
• We inspire others and share knowledge openly
• 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

Open for relocation? No problem! We offer relocation services.