An event by Klarna Engineering 

live series: Tallinn 2019

Tuesday 3 Dec 2019 from 18:00 with event start at 18:30

Klarna Engineering live series: Tallinn 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: Tallinn 2019

Mite Mitreski & Gareth Law
Engineering Directors

Host Introduction

A short introduction to set the scene. Gareth & Mite will introduce the problem that Klarna solves for, introduce the tech stack, tell you about live series. They will also give you a preview of life working at Klarna.

Mite Mitreski & Gareth Law

Mite covers the checkout product which is the core of Klarna's offering. Gareth covers the core of the consumer proposition. Between them they support 200+ engineers. Speak to them at the event to find out more about Klarna Engineering. They can also put you in touch with the other members of the Engineering Leadership team. 

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Nils Lagerkvist
Engineering Manager

- Lightning Talk - Building runtime platforms for developers

The DevOps practices intended to reduce the time between a code commit and the change being placed into production. At the same time it can put a strain on the developers to know more and follow more standardisations in order to not create chaos. Nils will present the design work of a runtime platform that enables developers to focus on their business problems rather than maintaining infrastructure and help them in their security work.

Nils Lagerkvist

Nils is a Swedish engineer that joined Klarna in the beginning of 2019. He has a past in designing large scale micro-service architectures and infrastructure platforms enabling developers to move fast.

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Alexandre Borel
Engineering Manager

Continuous Innovation in High Volume Systems

Frequently pushing changes to services that are on the critical path for more than 130k merchants can scare any company. Alexandre will present the pragmatic solutions and setups used by Klarna engineers to push out new features every day without interfering with our reliability.Deployment strategies, A/B testing, micro-services architecture or anomaly detection, join Alexandre to understand how one can use these tools to ensure innovation is made possible for autonomous teams.

Alexandre Borel

Alexandre is a French engineer working at Klarna since 2018. His past experience as self-employed engineer taught him the importance of autonomy as innovation driver, especially within large enterprises.

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Eleni Kargioti
Engineering Manager

The Pink Matryoshka: Building micro-frontends at scale

Eleni will present our experience of architecture, techniques and recipes that have allowed multiple teams to work and deliver features independently into our flagship products: Checkout, Instant Shopping, Klarna Payments.Join Eleni to find out whether these patterns could help your frontend teams deliver with more autonomy and efficiency.

Eleni Kargioti

Eleni left sunny Greece to join Klarna in 2015 as a frontend engineer. Eleni has been part of the rollout of Klarna Checkout in US/UK, and witnessed the first steps towards Checkout’s modularization. Eleni now leads the Instant Shopping team which recently released an express checkout solution allowing consumers to buy at the point of inspiration.

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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.

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Schedule

18:30

Klarna Introduction

18:50

The Pink Matryoshka: Building micro-frontends at scale

Eleni Kargioti
Engineering Manager
19:25

| Lightning Talk | Building runtime platforms for developers

Nils Lagerkvist
Engineering Manager
19:35

Food, Drinks & Mingle

20:20

Continuous Innovation in High Volume Systems

Alexandre Borel
Engineering Manager
20:50

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.

Nick Bryce | Talent@lifeatklarnanick.bryce@klarna.com

Nick 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.