2 months ago
Milan, ItalyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Make sound, defensible technical and architectural decisions and explain the trade-offs.
- Design systems with attention to wider architecture, failure propagation, scalability, reliability, auditability, and controls.
- Connect technical choices to business outcomes and appropriately size solutions.
- Build and operate systems in a hands-on role while remaining active in the codebase.
- Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and act as a multiplier across teams.
- Advance practical everyday use of AI within the engineering domain.
- Move initiatives forward across multiple teams without formal authority.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating systems with significant reliability and performance demands at scale.
- Ideally, experience working in Java, JavaScript, or Python environments.
- Ability to make trade-offs, articulate rejected alternatives, and prioritize business outcomes over unnecessary engineering complexity.
- Ability to explain complex systems to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience leading through technical work and operating effectively amid ambiguity.
- Experience learning from production incidents or designs that did not perform as expected and improving systems afterward.
- A CV in English is required.
Benefits
- Most teams currently meet in the office 2–3 days per week, with the arrangement varying by team and subject to change.
- Non-obvious backgrounds and diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences are welcomed.
- The role may offer placement across multiple engineering domains, including risk and checkout.
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About Klarna
Klarna is a privately held fintech that provides buy now, pay later financing, checkout, and a consumer shopping app for e-commerce and retail. It monetizes through merchant fees, interchange, and interest and fees on financing, while offering marketing and customer acquisition tools to merchants. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Stockholm, it operates across Europe and North America.