Frontend Engineer - JavaScript

Job Description

On our path to becoming the world's favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace a hypergrowth atmosphere and defy their own expectations. Engineering at Klarna is an inspired, customer focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Working in small, highly collaborative Agile teams, you and your team will have a clear mission and ownership of an important outcome that supports Klarna and our customers. At Klarna we optimise for quality, flow, fast feedback, focussing on end-to-end ownership, continuous improvement, testing, monitoring and experimentation. We aim for teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build. Our engineers make some of the most significant decisions for the company and we are looking for bold, open and curious developers. As a Klarnaut, you’ll be inspired to contribute to the growth of one of the World's most highly valued fintech, and your work will impact the lives of our millions of users. We are now opening the doors to a new major engineering hub in Toronto and are looking for software engineers to be part of our exciting journey. We are initially hiring developers to work on the Klarna App, with positions in numerous teams working on the shopping experience, store integration, data driven features, and the core architecture and foundations of our app platform. Help us make shopping online even more smoooth!

What you'll get to do:

• Build and maintain client side features, React components.
• 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 and native app releases every week.
• 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.

You should have:

• A strong coding ability in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Experience with React (and/or React Native) with Redux
• Experience with advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with product development.
• A passion for writing clean and testable code.
• Experience with Agile practices (Pairing, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery).

Some of the technologies we work with:

• JavaScript /TypeScript
• React + React Native with Redux
• Node.js and Express.js
• REST API and GraphQL API
• Kafka
• Internal design system
• AWS, Splunk, Datadog, Jenkins and Docker.

What we can offer you:

• Culture - You'll have an opportunity to work in an international company with people from a variety of different countries in a central location.
• 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 and compensation package. We recognise that life is more than work, and promote work life balance.

We know diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Our teams include women, men, mothers, fathers, the self-taught, the college-educated, and people from all over the world. We also believe in contributing back to the open source community. You can find some of our work here https://github.com/klarna . How to apply: please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile in English What we offer: Diversity & Community With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success. Ownership & Impact Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space. Trust & Collaboration Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together. If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success. At Klarna, You can choose between working from the office, remotely within your employment country, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!  Additionally, we’re providing each Klarnaut with a contribution and equipment to improve this flexible work life. Use it to glow up that personal home office space, or upgrade those work accessories. Challenges & Rewards We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered. About Klarna Since 2005 Klarna has been on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. With over 90 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is meeting the changing demands of consumers by helping them save time and money while better managing their cashflow and making informed decisions. Over 250,000 global retail partners, including H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macys, IKEA, Expedia Group, and Nike have integrated Klarna's innovative technology to deliver a seamless shopping experience online and in-store. With over 5,000 employees, Klarna is active in 20 markets and is one of the most highly-valued private fintechs globally, with a valuation of $45.6 billion. For more information, visit Klarna.com It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender, identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application. Apply for this job