Lead Engineer

ph3Klarna, briefly /h3 /brpAt Klarna, we're building an everyday finance network, helping over 120 million consumers across 26 countries save time and money, and worry less about their finances. Working here means taking on problems most companies never get to solve, and being hands-on enough that the interesting part of the work lands with you, not someone else, you'll build with AI, not watch it happen. /p /brh3Klarna, briefly /h3 /brpAt Klarna, we're building an everyday finance network, helping over 120 million consumers across 26 countries save time and money, and worry less about their finances. Working here means taking on problems most companies never get to solve, and being hands-on enough that the interesting part of the work lands with you, not someone else, you'll build with AI, not watch it happen. /p /brpThis is the stretch zone. Come find out what you're capable of. /p /brh3About The Role /h3 /brpBeing an engineer at Klarna means building and owning the systems that move money for millions of people, and that responsibility doesn't end when those systems ship. Your team and your focus can also change as the business changes, and the domain you join may look different in a year. Either way, this stays a hands-on role: you're still writing code, still making architecture calls, still in the codebase, and your influence comes from the quality of that work and the engineers you work most closely with. /p /brpWe are searching for someone who brings expertise that changes what we are capable of. You've built something we haven't. You've gone deep somewhere we haven't been yet. The engineers here are strong; what they don't have is your specific experience, and that's exactly the gap we're hiring into. /p /brh3What You'll Do /h3 /brul /brliMake sound, defensible technical decisions, and be able to say clearly what you decided against and why. /li /brliThink past your own contribution: how it fits the wider architecture, where failures propagate, what breaks first under load, and who feels it downstream. /li /brliTie technical choices to business outcomes and size the solution to the problem's actual value - including when the right answer is something small. /li /brliDesign for the constraints that come with being a regulated bank - reliability, auditability, controls - and treat them as part of the engineering problem rather than an obstacle to it. /li /brliMentor engineers and raise the technical bar across teams. You act as a multiplier and elevate the people and teams around you, not just your own output. /li /brliSet the standard for how your domain uses AI in everyday practice - not as a demo, as a working method. /li /br /ul /brh3Who you are /h3 /brul /brliYou bring a capability Klarna doesn't have today. Your experience doesn't just improve what's already there - it unlocks something new entirely. /li /brliYou have built and operated systems with real reliability and performance demands at scale, ideally in Java, JavaScript, or Python environments. /li /brliYou make trade-offs and can articulate the roads not taken. /li /brliYou optimize for business outcomes over engineering elegance, and you know the difference between right-sizing and gold-plating. /li /brliYou explain complex systems clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike. /li /brliYou lead through your work, not your title. /li /brliYou're comfortable with ambiguity and can move an initiative forward across several teams without formal authority over any of them. /li /brliYou have scar tissue and you talk about it - the incident, the design that didn't survive contact with production, what you changed afterwards. /li /br /ul /brh3Things you should know before applying /h3 /brul /brliWorking together: We value co-located teams; most teams currently meet in the office 2-3 days per week, and this varies by team and can change over time. /li /brliNon-obvious backgrounds are welcome. Diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds is how we create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. /li /brliFinal compensation will be based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience. /li /brliThis is a general Lead Engineer opening, not tied to one fixed team. Depending on need at the time of hiring, you could be placed in one of several domains. A domain is a group of teams working on a related set of problems, for example, everything to do with risk, or everything to do with checkout. /li /br /ul /p #J-18808-Ljbffr