Lead Engineer
Pubblicato il 26-09-2026 - Klarna in Milano
Job-ID: e9c99fc7-d7ed-42da-a74f-4846d011fec3Location: MilanSalary: 72950 - EURType: Full timePosted: Contact: , briefly At 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. This is the stretch zone. Come find out what you're capable of. About the role Being 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. We 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. What you'll do Make sound, defensible technical decisions, and be able to say clearly what you decided against and why. Think past your own contribution: how it fits the wider architecture, where failures propagate, what breaks first under load, and who feels it downstream. Tie technical choices to business outcomes and size the solution to the problem's actual value - including when the right answer is something small. Design for the constraints that come with being a regulated