This is Us!
SVTi is the interactive department of SVT. We develop all of SVT’s public online services – SVT Play, SVT Nyheter, SVT Sport, SVT Barn and Duo, to name a few. We are approximately 200 people, working in cross functional teams to design and develop SVT’s online services, platforms and functions. We are proud to build products that deliver news and entertainment to millions of people. Our office is based in Stockholm. Come join us!
The Swedish national public television broadcaster. Our vision is to contribute to a more inquisitive, informed Sweden. Our aim is to create content that engages, entertains and enriches - in the service of the public. SVT runs independently in relation to political, commercial and other interests in society.
Open Positions
You’ll never be complete, and that’s as it should be
At SVT Interactive we believe that diversity and autonomy drives innovation. We believe that if we work together and continuously learn we will create the best products for our customers! And in return that will create the best place for us to work at.
Life at SVTi
What We Do
Programming
We work in agile autonomous product teams who make their own tech choices and are responsible for their product. Many teams gladly practice mob programming. We build for constant experimentation and user testing with everything among others React, Node, GraphQL, Unity, Kotlin.
Growth and Experiment
We strive towards a culture of intensive learning through a data-driven approach to increase the value of our content and services for our users. We work cross-departmentally and experiment with content, publishing, marketing and development to make the users find us and come back.
Data and Machine Learning
Data is one of our most important assets. We are building our own data platform to democratise data and insights in our organisation, optimise learning and decision making as well as enhancing our services for the users with machine learning and data-driven decisions.
Video Encoding
We love video and we always think outside the black box. Innovation is a must to keep up with ever-increasing expectations on video quality while keeping distribution costs reasonable. Our video encoding is powered by in-house solutions and industry-standard open source components, running on commodity hardware. We always strive for the best possible quality regardless of the end user device.
Open Source
At SVT, we strive to take part in the open source community. We believe that by contributing our resources we add value both to the public and to ourselves, and also foster collaboration culture and openness. We believe that this aligns greatly with our public service mission.
Design/UX/Accessibility
Design and innovation is at the core of product development at SVT. Our art directors and UX designers work with research, user testing, and creative concept development to ensure that our products create great user experiences, have a clear visual communication, and meet the highest standards of accessibility.
Diversity & Psycological Safety
At SVT we believe diversity fosters innovation. In order to build the best possible user experience we need people with different backgrounds and different perspectives, so that we can truly understand our user’s needs.
But having a diverse workforce means little if you don’t feel safe enough to be your true self. Therefore we strive to create a psychologically safe environment, for every individual and every team.
Agile/Mob
We strive to work in a truly agile manner – but we refuse to enforce any agile framework upon our teams. Instead, at SVT the teams themselves chose what they believe work well for them. And quite a few have chosen to mob program or even mob develop – and hey, working together is often more fun than doing it alone, right?
From Our Tech Blog
One year with Aurora
Super charging our learning with internal internships
SVT’s Innovative Tech Sprints
Blackframe Filter — A Student Project Collaboration Showcase
5 steps to build a great team in the midst of a pandemic
Buying into the hype? Evaluating deep video scaling for SVT Play
Team Developer Experience — how it all started
Accessibility as a part of visual identity
Encore Open Source — Licensed to once again Transcode
Progression through Regression — Taking backwards compatibility to a whole new level
Culture Manifesto
To describe for others who we are and what we believe in we wrote a culture manifesto. You can read more about the work that led up to the manifesto on our Tech-blog.
Built to Last, Easy to Change
We work with architecture for long-term scalability, security and accessibility.This, and the teams’ independence, will give us the mobility we need to meet our users’ needs. Our services maintain a high quality until they are phased out.
United by Goals
We know and understand our goals. We dare to challenge the old, established truths, and we take the comprehensive approach needed to reach our goals. We evaluate and discontinue services, features and content that will not carry us into the future.
Together Into the Future
Everyone at SVT works with developing digital services. We possess unique cutting-edge skills and we believe in developing our services in close collaboration with everyone in the company.
Learning is Winning
We develop our processes and our organisation to enhance our learning speed. That creates long-term value for us and our users.We learn together with our users, and from each other. We share everything we know.
On the Public’s Digital Service
Openness is a necessary means to gain and keep our users' trust. We share what we make. Our users can trust us with their data. We take integrity seriously.We give our users the best experience on each device. The open web is fundamental to our independence.
People, Passion and Innovation
Our services are the result of our employees’ passion. Innovation springs from our differences. Failure is an important part of our learning process. We believe in responsibility, freedom and trust. We develop people who develop services. Learning is winning
