Software Engineer (Working Student)

About Klarna

Klarna was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2005. Since then we've changed the banking industry forever. And now we're creating the world's smoothest shopping experience. We serve over 90 million consumers worldwide, and partner with 200,000 merchants – with a new merchant joining us every 8 minutes. Including some of the world's leading brands, such as H&M, ASOS, IKEA, Adidas, Samsung and Lufthansa. Our offices are spread over 17 different markets, hosted by 5000+ employees from 100 nationalities.

Klarna strives to become the world’s favorite way to buy, and you can contribute to reaching this goal! We are looking to hire great people, who are passionate about using their talents to generate success.

What you will do

You’re looking for a job as a working student? Are you highly motivated to grow your personal mastery? Do you want to learn how to build and run a service that serves millions of customers every day? You can stop searching!

Please Note: Unfortunately, we only accept applications from students who are currently enrolled in university in Germany. As We want to encourage your learning process, the position requires regular attendance in the office.

At Klarna you will:

  • Work on a specific problem space critical to Klarna’s current needs with opportunities to switch teams as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve
  • Bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, large-scale system design, data storage/processing, security, artificial intelligence, UI design and mobile development
  • Develop as a professional in an entrepreneurial organization that provides an opportunity to work with your areas of interest
  • Use state of the art technology  to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve, you own the full life-cycle of your code - you write it, you own it!
  • Share your knowledge and help the team evolve best practices
  • Work in small autonomous teams with short release cycles

Who You Are

  • Klarna is looking for ambitious people with significant drive! You should be passionate about your job and enjoy a fast paced international working environment. You will play an important role in taking Klarna to the next level thus, you should desire to go above and beyond to produce best work results! At Klarna we embrace change, you should dare to challenge the status quo and be persistent.

You should have

  • First experience with one or more programming languages, e.g. Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, or React
  • Interest and ability to learn, e.g. new coding languages
  • Strong problem solving ability
  • You must be enrolled at a university in Germany
  • Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English
What we offer you
 
Klarna is one of Sweden's success stories not only for its exceptional growth story but also for its unique place to work at. We think in flat hierarchies, let the best people and ideas grow and always aim for the better.

Culture - You'll have an opportunity to work with people from more than 10 different countries in our English/German-speaking office in Gießen (Germany).

A strong product development-focused culture, where your work has a very strong impact on the success of the organization.

Learning - We have a learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks.

Collegiality - We encourage a harmonic environment in the teams, therefore we hold regular team events for all employees, join a monthly breakfast, have lunch together and offer many more benefits.

We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and therefore are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of Klarna. We’re building teams of technically curious problem solvers. Come and join us!
 
Interested?


Please Note: Unfortunately, we currently only accept applications from students who are currently enrolled in university in Germany. As We want to encourage your learning process, the position requires regular attendance in the office.

We at Klarna's Recruitment Team are happy to receive your application in English or German. Please also forward your certificates which underline your background together with the earliest possible starting date.