An event by Klarna Engineering.

Live Series: Riga 2020

January 9th from 18:00 with event start at 18:30

Klarna Engineering Live Series: Riga is for Senior Software Engineers & Engineering Managers 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 $5.5 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.   

The event also offers an opportunity to network and interact with other like minded engineers in your home city as well as getting to know what it's like to work at Klarna. 

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

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Speakers live series: Riga 2020

Leslie Wittig Quintanilla
Senior Engineer

Monorepo: Shared pain. Shared profit.

Continuously integrating code and people, this is the story of a monorepo that started small. And now is considered one of the most valuable code repositories from Klarna. Many things are said about working with a monorepo, but I will show you that monorepo is more about taking advantage of an open and collaborative culture while independently evolving the microservices that it houses.

Leslie Wittig Quintanilla

Leslie got into the internet world in 99, the same year Matrix movie was launched. Since then she decided to take the red pill and become a software engineer and help many "Zions" to thrive during her career. Married, with 6 cats, curious, loves DIY projects, 3D printing, robots, sci-fi, board games and traveling. She supports everybody, especially women and girls that want to follow their dreams of getting into engineering. She believes that there are no stupid questions but unanswered concerns.

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Behdad Khoshkhu
Engineering Manager

Experimentation Platform: Smoooth Iterations!

Iteration speed is one of the key success factors for Klarna, but how do you know that your iterations are improving the product? Behdad will talk about how Klarna Experimentation Platform helps the organization gain visibility into the impact of each iteration.

Behdad will talk about how Klarna Experimentation Platform helps the organization gain visibility into the impact of each iteration.

Behdad Khoshkhu

Behdad has led the Klarna Experimentation Platform team in Berlin since 2018 with a mission to promote a data driven culture across Klarna. His past experience with data, experimentation at scale and its impact has taught him the value of iterations and importance of its visibility.

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Alexandru Lungu
Software Engineer

Empowering teams to deliver faster

As the company grows at a rapid pace, Klarna is faced with a big challenge. We need to keep our startup speed of innovation while also be secure and compliant, reduce waste and follow the latest software development best practices. No bureaucracy is allowed.In this presentation, Alexandru will give you a sneak peek to our solution: independent teams and self-service platforms.

Alexandru Lungu

Alexandru is a software engineer with a passion for DevOps and automation. That's why he is excited to enable other developers to deliver value faster while following the best practices without having to worry about pesky Cloudformation templates.

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Case Taintor
Engineering Director

Host Introduction

A short introduction to set the scene. Case will introduce problems that Klarna solves, introduce the tech stack, and tell you about the live series. He will also give you a preview of working at Klarna.

Case Taintor

Case covers the platforms and automation necessary to empower Klarna’s 200+ teams and 1000+ engineers to deliver high quality and secure services with a minimal amount of effort.  During his 7+ years at Klarna, he’s worked with merchant onboarding, payment flows, Klarna Checkout, and the Klarna App. Talk with him at the event to understand Klarna Engineering. He can also put you in touch with the other members of the Engineering Leadership team.

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More about Klarna Engineering...


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.

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

130,000 retailers are working with us worldwide. From big to small, brands are partnering with Klarna to offer a seamless checkout experience to their shoppers.Whether it’s the approaching-5-star app live in one of 9 markets including Germany, Sweden, US & UK or the checkout product working on thousands of merchants there are lots of challenging things to work on.  

The Engineering Team

There are ~1000 engineers in Klarna based in Stockholm & Berlin. The Klarna Engineering value statement is to be an inspired, customer focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry.

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

Tech stack

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

Working at Klarna in Stockholm, Sweden

https://www.klarna.com

We offer a full relocation package. 

All you need to know

This event is for Senior Engineers and Engineering Managers who are interested in systems at scale.

Food and drink will be provided in the form of a buffet for all attendees. Doors open 18:00, event start at 18:30.

We are limited on numbers of attendees, please register and RSVP to this event in order to confirm attendance.

Event in collaboration with GDG Riga.

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Schedule

18:30

Klarna Introduction

Case Taintor
Engineering Director
18:50

Monorepo: Shared pain. Shared profit.

Leslie Wittig Quintanilla
Senior Engineer
19:25

| Lightning Talk | Experimentation Platform: Smoooth Iterations!

Behdad Khoshkhu
Engineering Manager
19:40

Food, Drinks & Mingle

20:10

Empowering teams to deliver faster

Alexandru Lungu
Software Engineer
20:45

Wrap Up

Klarna Engineering Live Series team

Carl Nyström | Events@lifeatklarnacarl.nystrom@klarna.com

Reach out to Carl for any questions about the event and future events in the Klarna Engineering LIVE SERIES.

Mine Konuk | Talent@lifeatklarnamine.konuk@klarna.com

Mine will be at the event to take any questions about working for Klarna as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Manager.

Josefine Lidenwall@lifeatklarnajosefine.lidenwall@klarna.com

Reach out to Josefine for any questions about the event and future events in the Klarna Engineering LIVE SERIES.