Klarna Engineering Live Series: Milan.

1 December 2020 18:00-20:00

A digital event by Klarna Engineering.

Tuesday 1st December at 18:00-20:00

230 Engineers are signed up to this event!

Klarna Engineering Live Series: Milan is for Software Engineers who want to hear about the engineering challenges and solutions that resulted in Klarna becoming the largest private FinTech company in the EU valued at $10.6 Billion.

In 2015 Klarna Engineering started its own internal conference for Product & Engineering. Every year it has grown. By 2019 the event had 800 attendees. You can see some of the talks here. Klarna Engineering Live Series is a spin off of this internal conference, where we bring a couple of talks to your hometown. Following the success of us turning this event digital earlier this year, we are now planning our second Live Series: Milan!

As well as some interesting tech talks, this event also offers an opportunity to network and interact with other like minded engineers and getting to know what it's like to work at Klarna.

Please join us and meet with some of the Klarna Engineering Leadership team and engineers responsible for achieving this level of growth.

The product we build

At Klarna, we have a relentless focus on creating the best shopping experience in the world. We believe payments are so much more than just a way to send money. That’s why our smoooth payment methods give you more time, control and joy so you can focus on the things you love.

90 million shoppers are using Klarna. A large customer base already seeing the value of paying later, making one million transactions per day.

200,000+ retailers are working with us worldwide. From big to small, brands are partnering with Klarna to offer a seamless checkout experience to their shoppers including one of our biggest partners, H&M.
The Klarna app is now live in 17 markets including US & UK, Australia and now, Italy!

The Engineering Team

We are a highly diverse competence represented by over 1150+ engineers from all around the globe. And we empower engineers to own their deliveries and be able to quickly iterate on their work. As a result, we are now fully cloud and experimenting on the multi-cloud. Most engineers release to production through merging to master.

The engineering competence is for example made of: – Frontend and Backend engineers – Full Stack engineers – System architects.

Every year we host our own conference with 800 attendees. Last year was in Berlin https://thekonferen.se/.

Tech stack

At Klarna we invested heavily in JavaScript as a full stack language, Java as one of our prominent systems development languages and Erlang. There are many other languages in use as well.

Working at Klarna in Milan, Italy

Klarna isn't made up of jobs. It's made up of people. Bold people. Curious people. Open people. Quirky people. Optimistic people. People who want more than a job.

With great thanks to our operating model, you really get the autonomy that lets you develop your sense of ownership, challenge, get into the details, and have a vision for your work. Today our engineering squad is made up of 1150+ engineers, with a passion for technology and sharing knowledge.

Klarna made waves in early 2020 with the announcement of a 4th product development hub to be established in the Italian powerhouse of Milan. We intend to scale rapidly within multiple competences including engineering, product management, and data science in order to continue developing world-class products.

Klarna's career site.

Carolin Ewetz
Senior Org Development Manager

Host Introduction

20m

A Klarna introduction to set the scene. Carolin will introduce the problem that Klarna solves for, the tech stack and tell you about Live Series. She will also give you a preview of life working at Klarna.

Carolin Ewetz

Writing code without writing code

30m

Risk at Klarna is a serious problem. Minimizing the financial risk makes everyone happy: Klarnauts, merchants, customers, the whole economy. Data analysts are those heroes that constantly dive deep into the data and build decision rules that aim to minimize risks. This is a journey of how a single web page can make analysts engineering-free, able to write Python code super quickly without even knowing one language word.

Antonio Trapani

After a degree in Computer Engineering and first jobs, Antonio became tech leader of Fubles, the largest Italian online platform that helps people organize football matches. He learned how to "Start small, learn fast" (cit.) when founding Plainflow Inc. in the US, the definitive tool for marketing automation. He failed and learned: "Start small, learn fast, until running out of money." (my cit.). Moneymour hit Antonio's heart and Antonio hit Moneymour's heart. Between foosball matches, he was also able to develop a bunch of undisclosed things for the backend and the frontend. Now in Klarna, using his extremely smoooth appeal, he's ready to slap straight in the face of all the old banks out there.

Launching new markets at scale: how the Home & Away Teams model helps Klarna's global expansion

20m

Klarna operating model consisting of more than 500 start-up teams responsible for a specific problem space might not be sufficient to reach the speed required when expanding to new markets. To build products that add value to our customers, technical complexity must be managed in a more collaborative way, which allows for easy experimentation, quicker deliveries, and, overall, a better quality of the software.

Inspired by Amazon AWS, Klarna has recently enhanced its unique processes and introduced a Home & Away Teams collaboration model. We will present how this approach is helping to improve the development cycle, the strategic coordination of different backlogs, and, overall, the global expansion of Klarna.

Alessandro Dal Bello

Alessandro joined Klarna a few months ago as a backend engineer. He is part of New Markets, a team whose mission is to facilitate the expansion of Klarna's products all over the World (easy, isn’t it?). On a daily basis, Alessandro helps the Stockholm-based Payment Method Services team adapting their solutions to launch the new Klarna markets, Italy included!

How can 55 teams contribute into one mobile app?

20m

We will take a look at the Klarna App basic architecture and the tech stack that allows 55 teams to work and deliver features independently into one mobile app. After that we will deep dive into one team's problem space, to see how a handful of people make impact on the whole product.

Buzzwords: Monorepo, React Native, NodeJS, GraphQL.

Akos Olah

Akos was always driven by new technologies and new challenges. He started his career in Hungary, he helped to build up small innovative dev companies, then became co-founder of a fairly successful startup. In 2016 he moved to Stockholm and has been working there since.
Key motivations for him: The team, who you are working with and to never stop learning.

Wrap up and Q&A

10m

Yaron will wrap up the event and host a Q&A session.