Software Engineer - Functional Languages for Financial Platforms

What you will do

The aim of our Erlang teams is to scale up the backend of Klarna checkout and ensure our highly available purchase accepting system can handle ever increasing traffic volumes as well as building increased functionality into our payment processing systems.

As part of an Erlang team you will:
Be exposed to Erlang, Mnesia, LevelDB, Kafka, Splunk, Ansible, Jenkins and a range of OTP tools
Work with the entire lifecycle of a service; from writing application code and tests to deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting
Work as a team; we respect and support each other, and practise agile methodologies including TDD, pair and mob programming
Deploy code multiple times a day using automated pipelines
Depending on your previous experience you will work within the following levels: Junior, Senior or Manager.

Who you are
Klarna is looking for ambitious people with significant drive! You should be passionate about your job and enjoy a fast paced international working environment. You will play an important role in taking Klarna to the next level thus, you should desire to go above and beyond to produce best work results! At Klarna we embrace change, you should dare to challenge the status quo and be persistent.
You should have
Interest for working with Erlang
Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
You might also have
Familiarity with functional programming
Passion for learning and succeeding in fields you haven’t worked in before
Interest for end-to-end ownership, continuous improvement, testing, monitoring and experimentation

Who we are

Klarna is Europe's fastest growing and most exciting financial technologies (FinTech) company valued at over $2.5bn and we’re growing by 40% a year. Here at Klarna we are striving to become the world’s most favourite way to buy. It is a bold objective, but we are well on course to achieving it.

Klarna is already operating in 18 markets and we plan to keep expanding. We serve 60 million consumers, work with 70 000 merchants and process more than a million transactions a day. We have some pretty heavy-weight investors including Visa, Sequoia Capital, Permira and Anders Povlsen.

Unicorns are rare - and we are one of them! Unicorns are tech startups valued at over 1$Bn. Moreover, Klarna is listed 8th on CNBC most ‘disruptive companies in the world’ list for 2016, alongside Uber, AirBnB and coming above companies like Snapchat and Spotify - we are really starting to change the global world of payments.