On our path to becoming the world's favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace a hypergrowth atmosphere and defy their own expectations.
Engineering at Klarna is an inspired, customer focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Working in small, highly collaborative Agile teams, you and your team will have a clear mission and ownership of an important outcome that supports Klarna and our customers. At Klarna we optimise for quality, flow, fast feedback, focusing on end-to-end ownership, continuous improvement, testing, monitoring and experimentation. We aim for teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.
Our engineers make some of the most significant decisions for the company and we are looking for bold, open and curious developers. As a Klarnaut, you’ll be inspired to contribute to the growth of Europe’s most highly valued fintech and your work will reach millions of users.
Ready to help us push the boundaries of building products with quality and speed while establishing our newest product engineering hub in Madrid? We're expanding two of our most important end-consumer focused domains (think tribes/business units/verticals) in Madrid and we are looking for like-minded future Klarnauts to continue to elevate our game!
What you'll get to do
- Inspire, lead, shape and grow a high performing software engineering team consisting of 3-8 team members; succeed, fail, and learn together!
- Scope and own a problem space while you develop your team’s vision and mission statement
- Translate business needs into capability build up and hiring plans in own team, play a key role in helping us continue to attract, develop and retain great engineering talent
- Continue being hands-on with programming and make informed decisions while you identify technical risks and drive sound design decisions; drive a you build it, you own it mentality
- Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality and speed in own team as well as across teams and domains
- Take calculated risks, anchor with different stakeholders and articulate short and long term consequences
- Act swiftly to change of direction, re-evaluate priorities and steer the team accordingly
- Manage and develop relationships with a variety of stakeholders and present to them; including external parties and Klarna's management team
You'll get the chance to work with
- Java (latest versions)
- Spring and Spring Boot and potentially other modules
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Kafka/SNS/SQS
- PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch/ELK stack
- Microservice architecture at scale on AWS
To succeed in this role, we think you should have
- A proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in complex and high transaction environments
- Demonstrable experience at acting independently, coupled with strong collaboration and coordination skills
- A desire to spend a significant percentage of your time close to the code
- Experience at developing, mentoring and growing a team
- Recent experience working with one or more general purpose programming languages including, but not limited to, Java
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related discipline
What we offer
- Culture - You'll have an opportunity to work in an international company with people from a variety of different countries in a central location in Madrid.
- Learning - We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
- Compensation - You’ll get an attractive salary and compensation package. We recognise that life is more than work, and promote work life balance.
We also believe in making contributions back to the open source community. You can find some of our work at https://github.com/klarna
How to apply: please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile in English.
What we offer:
Diversity & Community
With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.
Ownership & Impact
Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.
Trust & Collaboration
Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.
The Klarna Work Policy is designed to make sure we foster team collaboration while also ensuring a productive and flexible work environment. We work 2 days per week in the office on agreed days, and then 3 flexible days. We’re also providing each Klarnaut with an annual financial contribution to improve their flexible work life whether they use it to upgrade their work accessories, or their home office space!
Challenges & Rewards
We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered.
About Klarna
Since 2005 Klarna has been on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. With over 90 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is meeting the changing demands of consumers by helping them save time and money while better managing their cashflow and making informed decisions. Over 250,000 global retail partners, including H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macys, IKEA, Expedia Group, and Nike have integrated Klarna's innovative technology to deliver a seamless shopping experience online and in-store. With over 5,000 employees, Klarna is active in 20 markets and is one of the most highly-valued private fintechs globally, with a valuation of $45.6 billion.
