STV is Scotland’s leading digital media brand. Each month, our commercial broadcast channel reaches 3.5 million viewers and the STV Player is the fastest growing Video on Demand service in the UK. This role is a unique opportunity to work on a multi‑platform product that reaches a huge national audience across Scotland
STV are on a mission to become Scotland’s digital entertainment hub. The world of media streaming is fast‑paced and constantly changing and STV is determined to lead the way with our new digital strategy. Our development teams are working to transform our video streaming service, STV Player, into a world class platform. Our challenge is to blend leading‑edge technology with intuitive user interfaces and engaging user experiences.
About the team
We focus on delivering high‑quality, accessible and performant user interfaces that allow audiences to discover and enjoy content easily.
The team works closely with Product, UX and backend engineering teams, and integrates with a range of internal services and third‑party platforms to deliver a seamless viewing experience.
The Web team sits within our wider Engineering team and is part of our Audience Video & Technology division.
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Software Engineer to join the Web team on a 9‑month fixed term contract covering a period of maternity leave. This is a front‑end‑focused role, building and improving various STV Player web applications.
You’ll work on consumer‑facing applications that must work well at scale, as well as various in‑house applications such as our Content CMS, interfacing with our backend APIs and working with other engineers across the wider team.
Working and collaborating with PMs, QA, UX and other engineers you will help provide feedback on designs, build and deliver features end‑to‑end, as well as provide ongoing support once in production.
You will own the services you work on end to end – helping product management and engineering leadership define the requirements and architecture, through to supporting the services running in production.
What you’ll work with
- React and Next.js web applications
- Component library and Figma designs
- Automated testing (jest and cypress)
- Logging, metrics and observability to understand real‑world performance
About you
We’re looking for candidates with at least 2-3 years of professional software engineering experience and:
- Knowledge of software architecture and design patterns. You have an understanding of how to build and structure applications, particularly consumer facing web apps.
- An eye for detail and quality. High level of organisationalability and attention to detail working to strict deadlines, with a self‑starter, solutions focused approach. You have strong debugging and optimization skills, and can effectively use unit testing, monitoring and observability tools to build a solid product.
- Strong communication skills. You enjoy working in a team and collaborating with colleagues in other roles such as UX, Product Management and QA. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and choose the correct collaboration medium for the task at hand.
It would be great if you also had:
- Experience of using Test Driven Development and Cypress automated testing.
- Experience using Continuous Delivery tools to rapidly deploy changes to production.
- Experience of monitoring and optimising the applications performance.
- Strong evidence of team working, supporting and sharing knowledge with team members.
- Knowledge of logging and metrics to help you determine if changes have been successful.
- Experience working with APIs and CDN caching.
BENEFITS
- 25 days paid annual leave and 9 public holidays per annum
- An extra day’s holiday on your birthday.
- Healthcare cash plan providing Company contributions towards dental, optical, wellbeing or other healthcare costs.
- Company pension contribution.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket travel loan.
- Access to occupational health service.
- Flexible benefits portal providing a range of retail and gym discounts.
APPLY
To apply please email a full CV & cover letter to hr@stv.tv by 8 July 2026.
Equal opportunities
STV Group plc is an equal opportunities employer committed to valuing and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates underrepresented in our industry, so we are keen to hear from ethnically diverse talent and people that identify as disabled, deaf and/or neurodivergent. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements to support your application by emailing hr@stv.tv.
