Software Engineer - Functional Programming

About Klarna

Klarna was founded in Stockholm in 2005 with the idea to simplify buying. Today, we're one of Europe’s fastest growing companies. In 2014 we joined forces with SOFORT and formed Klarna Group, the leading European payment provider.

Klarna Group has more than 1,500 employees and is active on 18 markets. We serve 60 million consumers and work with 70,000 merchants. Our goal is to become the world’s favorite way to buy.

Position

• Own your services end to end. Decide how best to build, test, deploy and monitor
• Work with large scale, highly available and resilient modern financial systems
• Be an integral part of a team, in addition to its culture and ways of working. Common practices include agile methodologies, pair and mob programming
• Work with automated deployment enabling code release multiple times a day
• Succeed, fail, and learn together with other talented people. We believe in an environment that provides an opportunity for growth and see education as an outcome of failure that gets us closer to the next breakthrough
• Work with modern tools and languages that excite you

Your qualification

You'll get the chance to work with

• Functional programming languages including Erlang, Scala (typelevel stack) and JVM tooling. We are also utilising Clojure, PureScript, and Haskell *
• Mnesia, and a range of OTP tools
• Kafka, Serverless, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, LevelDB
• Prometheus, Splunk, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes

* Previous functional programming experience isn’t essential, but you should be open to learning and working with any of the following languages as the choices available may change over time.

What we offer

• Culture - You'll have an opportunity to work with people from 45 different countries in our English speaking office in Stockholm city centre
• 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, pension, and insurance plans, along with 30 days annual leave. We recognise that life is more than work, and offer benefits for gym memberships, marathons, and all sorts of activities that promote physical health. We also have generous parental leave (for men and women)
• Relocation - We can offer full relocation support to Stockholm for senior candidates. Remote work is not something we can accomodate