Who we are
Klarna’s
mission is to free people from all the meaningless time spent managing
money and purchases, so they can do more of what they love. Every day at
Klarna we help consumers, merchants, and partners to explore just how
smoooth the modern purchase experience can be. Our position at the
crossroads of payments, consumer financing, ecommerce and banking means
we are uniquely positioned to do this. There is no label for what we
do.
Klarna was born in Stockholm in 2005 and
today has 2000 employees working across Europe and the US. We currently
serve 60 million consumers, work together with 90,000 merchants and
process more than a million payment transactions a day. We are growing
at 40% year on year and our investors include Visa, Atomico, Sequoia
Capital, Permira and Bestseller group/ Anders Holsch Povlsen. We have
strong partnerships with some of the world’s leading brands, such as
ASOS, IKEA, Adidas, Zara, Lufthansa and Spotify.
Klarna’s
engineering organization is growing rapidly and we're searching for
hands on technical Engineering Managers with core strengths in the JS
ecosystem to be part of this journey. Klarna’s growth is now on a global
scale and Engineering is the organization that will make this global
success happen.
Our business is represented in
Engineering domains where products are built from end to end. We have
small agile teams divided by domains. We pride ourselves on an
autonomous and knowledge sharing culture where teams own the systems
they build; from design to deployment.
With
daily deployments, a microservices architecture and functional
programming, we really do have an engineering culture that allows
talented Engineers to thrive, both professionally and personally.
Germany
has recently become our number one market and after forming our new
Berlin location earlier this year we’re spinning up many new teams.
You’ll be one of the first feet on the ground, holding responsibility
for one of our new JS focused teams and you’ll help lay the foundations
for Berlin to become as big as our Stockholm office!
We're looking for someone who can:
Inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering organization consisting of 3-8 team members.
Manage and drive procurement for third party products that your team depends on.
Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own team and cross teams.
Scope and own a problem space, articulate and develop fact based argumentation and
present it to senior management or CXOs, develop vision and mission statement.
Prioritise and optimise for highest speed in execution.
Take calculated risks, anchor with different stakeholders and articulate short and long term consequences.
Continuously develop relationships between product, engineering and key stakeholders
across all domains.
Influence and drive software design discussions.
Translate business needs into capability build up and hiring plans in own team.
Play a key role in helping us continue attracting, developing and retaining great engineering
talent.
Act swiftly to change of direction, re-evaluate priorities and steer the team accordingly.
Manage the budget for the team and dependencies.
Some of the technologies you would be working with inc: JavaScript, React, Redux, Node, Express, Docker and AWS.
You’ll need to have;
Experience leading cross functional software engineering teams in a fast paced, delivery focused environment.
A strong coding ability with core skills in JavaScript programming.
Strong track record of delivery of influential software, preferably in complex business models and high transaction environment.
Strong people management skills.
Collaboration and coordination skills.
Self driven and curiosity in mindset.
Stakeholder management ability.
Solid experience in acting independently coupled with strong collaboration and coordination skills.
Competitive salary;
30 days of annual leave every year;
Generous occupational pension and insurance plans;
Flexible work schedule;
International working environment in central Berlin;
Learning
and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge
sharing, training and regular internal technical talks;
Relocation support.
We
can offer you an international working environment filled with smart
and ambitious colleagues. We know that diverse teams are strong teams,
so we welcome those from different backgrounds and experiences. As part
of one of Europe’s fastest growing companies, you'll help play an
important role in taking Klarna to the next level.